Hi, I just changes to a static IP and the system behaves as if net.inet.ip.forwarding did not say '1'. All I did was change the hostname.xl0 to 'nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn 255.255.255.252 NONE' and added the gw IP to mygate.
This is a firewall/router and has been working as expected for a long time. I got fed up with various issues and switched to a static IP. Sitting in it I have no access problems at all. In fact I ssh'd into it from a LAN client and opened lynx to write this webmail. (But ended up changing the IP of a workstation and using a GUI instead.) The point being that LAN access works and so does the WAN connection. Indeed I flood pinged 100'000 packets from the LAN to the router with 1 lost packet. Did the same from the openbsd box to the external WAN router assigned to me, with some 30,000 packets and only lost 5. When pinging from the LAN to a WAN IP it might give a reply once in a blue moon. Which made me wonder if there is a dual route there someplace and it's not sure where to send it. Alas, I don't see anything wrong anywhere. My only uncertainty is the routing table saying 192.168.0.255 link#3 UC for the gateway for the LAN in the routing table, and not the IP. I would have expected to see a 'G' as well. (Actually, as I'm reviewing what I typed before sending it, I'm sure this must be the why. Though I've not been able to add a route without it saying file exists.) So in short networking works to and fro the openbsd box, but it does not forward very much, and I'm at my wits end. I suppose the only thing I've not tried is to bring pf.conf down to NAT and forward all with the minimum lines (I can't retype it all here) and see if that works. Though I've been through it too a number of times trying to see any line that refers to either the old or new WAN IP. It only refers to the external NIC via xl0 or it's alias (Cable) so any changed of IP should not matter. _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
