Bug 233281
| Summary: | IP forwarding clarification in rc.conf man-page | ||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | peos42 <peo_s> |
| Component: | Manual Pages | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> |
| Status: | Closed Works As Intended | ||
| Severity: | Affects Many People | CC: | ae, allanjude, doc |
| Priority: | --- | ||
| Version: | Latest | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
AFAIR, they are not equal. devd can reapply network configuration on some events, and if you have not *gateway_enable option in rc.conf, you will lost your gateway, because sysctl.conf does not applied in the same time. They are not equivalent, gateway_enable="YES" is a superset of net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 |
Hi I am new to FreeBSD but have used BSD since 20 years back… In the man-page for rc.conf I can see… —snip-- ipv6_gateway_enable (bool) The IPv6 equivalent of gateway_enable. —snip— and… —snip-- gateway_enable (bool) If set to "YES", configure host to act as an IP router, e.g. to forward packets between interfaces. —snip— If this is equal to set net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=1 in sysctl.conf it would for clarification be a good thing to mention in the man-page for rc.conf that this is an alternate way of setting this sysctl setting. A simple small parentesis containing "Equal to set net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=1 in sysctl.conf" would be good.