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| author | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2005-03-02 11:59:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2005-03-02 11:59:19 +0000 |
| commit | 6f460bab88948d7d2f7f1c9a8751306bf1bed7ca (patch) | |
| tree | f4e94aec63db88da86373b280a1101096f69d67e /share | |
| parent | 0b895dcf9e450b38e9a3f37912740df9610ced7f (diff) | |
clarify section on packet forwarding;
kill redundant blurb about virtual interfaces;
ok hshoexer@ deraadt@
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man8/afterboot.8 | 15 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man8/afterboot.8 b/share/man/man8/afterboot.8 index b0edeaedd37..2832e7fbc0d 100644 --- a/share/man/man8/afterboot.8 +++ b/share/man/man8/afterboot.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: afterboot.8,v 1.103 2005/02/18 08:58:56 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: afterboot.8,v 1.104 2005/03/02 11:59:18 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1997 Marshall M. Midden .\" All rights reserved. @@ -245,20 +245,15 @@ you will have to kill it by running .Ic kill `cat /var/run/dhclient.pid` after you flush the routes. .Pp -If you wish to route packets between interfaces, add the directive +If you wish to route packets between interfaces, add one or both +of the following directives (depending on whether IPv4 or IPv6 routing +is required) to +.Pa /etc/sysctl.conf : .Pp .Dl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 -or .Dl net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=1 .Pp -to -.Pa /etc/sysctl.conf . Packets are not forwarded by default, due to RFC requirements. -.Pp -You can add new -.Dq virtual interfaces -by adding the required entries to -.Pa /etc/hostname.if . .Ss BIND Name Server (DNS) If you are using the BIND Name Server, check the .Pa /etc/resolv.conf |