> 
> On Tue, 21 May 1996, Scott Ellis wrote:
> 
> > Out of curiousity, why is the Sun3 port the only one w/o GATEWAY in the
> > GENERIC kernel config file?  It works fine, seems like it should be in
> > there.
> 
> This is more than a matter of curiousity for me. I've got a colour
> 3/60 at home which is also the Internet gateway for my network. We
> have to use this because for some reason on my girlfriend's PC, on
> which we just installed Windows 95, the mouse pointer stops working
> as soon as we start a PPP connection. (It works just fine otherwise.
> I don't even want to think about it.)
> 
> Unfortunately, the kernels since 1.1B crash when they try to
> autoconfig the cgfour. So if I compile a new kernel, I don't get
> a cgfour, and thus don't get X. (I can config the bwtwo plane on
> that card to bwtwo0, but unfortunately XSunMono doesn't seem to
> want to find it.)
> 
> Now I do have a 1.1A kernel where the cgfour and X work, but
> unfortuantely it doesn't have options GATEWAY enabled. I thought
> I'd just set the _ipforwarding variable to 1, but I can't do that
> because I can't debug it with gdb because the magic number is wrong.
> 
> So if I want my machine to gateway, I don't get X, which is painful
> to me, and if I get X, my machine can't gateway and my girlfriend
> can't get on to the Internet, which is painful to her.
> 
> See what kind of mess leaving out these important options causes? :-)
> 

Try this:

	sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1

that should do the trick. This should also be documented in the man-page
for sysctl.

cheerio Berndt