[Cialug] Router Building

[Academician Kula]

Chris, you may want to check /etc/sysctl.conf, particularly the
net.inet.ip.forwarding variable. This (at least on other BSD systems
I've used) controls if  your machine will send packets between 
different interfaces. It always catches me, and kind of sounds like
what may be happening here. 

The last time it took me two days of frustration before I remember it,
which is why "sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1" is now taped to my
monitor....

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 05:45:46PM -0500, Bailey, Jonathan C wrote:
> I like OpenBSD and PF for a firewall. There's quite a bit of
> documentation on their site about it.
> 
> 
> Jon
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-admin@cialug.org [mailto:cialug-admin@cialug.org]On Behalf
> Of Chris Hilton
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 5:44 PM
> To: amesfug@amesfug.org; cialug@cialug.org
> Subject: [Cialug] Router Building
> 
> 
> I'm currently trying to setup a simple router with dhcp.  Currently, I
> have attempted to use freebsd with isc3-dhcp server.  I am able to get
> machines to dhcp, so they get addresses from the machine.  The machine
> is working on the net (the router that is).  I can ping from each
> machine to router (although I haven't tried two machines within the
> network, other than the router), and from the router to the machine.
> But, if I try and ping any address outside of my addresses
> (192.168.0.0/24) it says network not connected or something to that
> effect without any attempt to actually send packets.
> So I looked at the machines routing table, and sure enough it doesn't
> have an entry for default.  So I added one, and that just makes it send
> pings without ever getting a response.
> 
> At this point I don't really care how I get this thing to work as a
> router, I just want it to work.  I'm in no way attached to using fbsd,
> so if anyone knows of an OS where it's EASY to setup a router please
> tell me.  Something with a webtool would be awesome!
> Or if someone has a good tutorial (all the ones I've found are useless,
> some have directions that don't even work) it'd be nice.
> 
> Any suggestions of using Gentoo will be ignored; it's not funny or cute,
> don't suggest it please ;).  And don't suggest a SOHO router either, I
> have two and both of them freeze up on Friley's network.
> 
> Thank you,
> --Chris
> 
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