PF and NAT on FreeBSD 5.3
Kosta Kilim
kopno at sdf.lonestar.org
Wed Jan 19 10:53:11 PST 2005
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 06:25:32PM +0100, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote:
> Kosta Kilim wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to setup a PF with NAT for my home network.
<snip>
> pf rules looks OK.
> Wild guess: have you enabled packet forwarding? You can check it with
> sysctl(8):
>
> # sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding
> net.inet.ip.forwarding: 1
>
> To enable this at boot time put gateway_enable="YES" in your /etc/rc.conf
>
> Also check the handbook (25.2.4 Building a Router chapter):
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-routing.html
>
> > Any hints would be gladly received. Thank you for your time.
>
> You're welcome (I'm not sure if that helps, though).
That helped, thanks a lot.
I've just read that page a few times in the last few days, but only now
did it sink in. Thanks again !
Kosta
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