[Sunhelp] dsl setup in sol7

[Dale Ghent]

On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Dan Cuthbert wrote:

| Hi
| 
| Can any kind soul out there grant me their knowledge and tell me how
| the hell you get routing up and running in solaris 7
| I have a dsl setup with 16 static Live IP's, two interfaces, one off
| to the router and the other for the internal lan
| now on the sol box you can ping any site on the net, yet when you
| tell a win98 machine to use of the nics in the solaris box as its
| gateway, nothing
| i have added a defaultrouter file, yet still no luck

make sure that packet gatewaying is turned on in the kernel. Verify this
by running the command:

ndd -get /dev/ip ip_forwarding

0 = off
1 = on

If it is set to 0, then just run the folowing to turn it on:

ndd -set /dev/ip ip_forwarding 1

I believe by default, it is off.

/dale