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From: markus@server.peacock.de (Markus Illenseer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Packet forwarding - it doesn't work!
Followup-To: comp.unix.amiga,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Date: 22 Jul 1996 08:52:07 GMT
Organization: PEACOCK AG
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Matthias Scheler (tron@lyssa.owl.de) wrote:
: Try "sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1".

 Turned out that I had the same problem during a meeting lately. I am sure
that I had the option "GATEWAY" enabled in my kernel as well, but IP-forwarding
did not work at all.

 Gotta check in NetBSD 1.2 if this error vanished.

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Markus Illenseer