[repost] ip.forwarding with pf

[Peter N. M. Hansteen]

"J.D. Bronson" <jbronson at wixb.com> writes:

> Can someone tell me which is appropriate when FreeBSD 5.4-PRE is used as a
> router running pf with built in NAT ?

fastforwarding may or may not be useful, but as far as I can tell, it's
no replacement for the net.inet.ip.forwarding sysctl. By convention, you
would normally use rc.conf settings, ie

gateway_enable="YES" #for ipv4
ipv6_gateway_enable="YES" #for ipv6

to enable gatewaying.

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