Natd/Gateway=yes vs 5.3

Francisco Reyes lists at natserv.com
Sun Nov 14 15:15:15 GMT 2004


On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, John Murphy wrote:

> Section 14.9.6.3 /etc/rc.conf Options says:
> If you don't have IPFW compiled into your kernel you will need to
> load it with the following statement in your /etc/rc.conf:
> firewall_enable="YES"

I eventually figured it out.. after HOURS of checking around.

I did see that section, it also mentions that you need the kernel options 
if you will be doing NAT.

> So I guess that supersedes your "options IPDIVERT" entry.

That options is still needed if you will be doing NAT.
The problem was that I had seen in /etc/defaults/rc.conf a
network_interfaces="automatic" so I thought that 5.X did not need a 
network_interfaces line.

Once I put
network_interfaces="fxp0 ed0 lo0"

It all worked. An only took me 4 hours to figure it out. :-(


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