On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 01:23:53AM -0400, Cannella, Michael (ISS Southfield) wrote:
> 
> I've got a laptop that, in its current state, can have either a CD-ROM or a
> floppy, but not both simultaneously. The logical inference: do an ftp
> install.
> 
> But, my local gateway is outside my control and drops traffic aimed directly
> at it (e.g., icmp).
> 
> Since sysinst requires that my local gateway be pingable--and quits the
> install if it isn't--I can't install, _even though I have both internet
> connectivity and DNS resolution._

I know it's not a real solution, but I worked around this by specifying as
a gateway another host of the LAN which was smart enouth to
redirect traffic to the real gateway (a NetBSD machine with
sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
will do it).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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