Add a gateway

[Kent Stewart]

On Thursday 11 March 2004 01:59 pm, Darryl Hoar wrote:
> Greetings,
> I am running FreeBSD 4.7-stable on a computer.  It is
> configured to be my firewall.  My IPS changed the
> technology to access my DSL.  How do I define a gateway
> for an interface ?
>

#added for system operation
gateway_enable="YES"             # Set to YES if this host will be a 
gateway.
defaultrouter="207.41.94.1"

You have to have an IP address in that network or use DHCP. 

The last would be your gateway address. I think there is more to your 
question that what you asked :). Are you using PPoE or does your 
network come up like mine does. I can't comment on how to make DHCP 
work :).

Kent

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