On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:06:04PM -0000, Andrew Brampton wrote: > Hi, > I'm new to FreeBSD, I've had my box running for about 3-4 weeks now. Anyway > I've decided to enable it as a gateway by editing the /etc/rc.conf file. I > previously had it running as a gateway but I commented the > gateway_enable="YES" line. Now I want to uncomment this line so it routes my > traffic, but I don't want to actually restart my box because its got a 17 > day uptime, and I want to see how high I can get it, and the past 17 days > would of been wasted if I reboot :) > > Sorry if this sounds a bit lame, but I'm trying to beat my 21day uptime on > Windows 2k. So what command could I type, or which process could I > kill/restart so that my box will function as a gateway?
sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 is the command you are looking for. (This is most easily figured out by looking in /etc/rc.network and seeing what command is executed when rc.conf contains gateway_enable="yes" ) > > I had a quick scan through the man page on rc.conf, but didn't find anything > of relevance, but I did find many other useful lines I might add to my > rc.conf file later (just to play around with).. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
