port-i386: Re: IP Forwarding works only when tcpdump'ing (1.4.2)

Subject: Re: IP Forwarding works only when tcpdump'ing (1.4.2)
To: None <pollen@astrakan.hig.se>
From: John Kohl <jtk@kolvir.arlington.ma.us>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/22/2000 07:46:42

>>>>> "P" == =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E5llen?=  <ISO-8859-1> writes:

P> When we kill tcpdump the forwarding is killed too.

This sounds vaguely familiar to some problems I had with appletalk, but
my first suspicion here would be: did you set options GATEWAY in the
kernel config? Or check/set with sysctl:

% sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding
net.inet.ip.forwarding = 1


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