On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:06:04PM -0000, Andrew Brampton wrote:
> 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
That, and appropriate entries in your routing tables are all you need
to make your machine route packets between interfaces.
Cheers,
Matthew
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