[CUWiN-Dev] static gateways

David Young dyoung at pobox.com
Mon Aug 28 15:59:44 CDT 2006


On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 03:36:46PM -0500, Brandon Bowersox wrote:
> On Aug 28, 2006, at 3:11 PM, David Young wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 02:35:55PM -0500, Matt Isaacs wrote:
> >>OK.  I've setup ifconfig.sip0, mygate, and internet-connected.  The
> >>situation currently is that the gateway can send traffic out to the
> >>internet, and the second node can now ping the the outside  
> >>interface on the
> >>gateway node.  The routes also appear to be holding.  However,  
> >>traffic from
> >>the second node still is not being routed to the internet.  A  
> >>traceroute
> >>shows anything beyond the gatway node (specifically its wireless ip,
> >>10.0.x.x) to time out.
> >
> >Ah.  NAT is not active on the interface.  You need to add /etc/ 
> >pf.conf,
> >too.  Use a rule like the one that /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks creates.
> 
> What aspects of this functionality can and should be built into  
> nodeconfig?  We want nodeconfig to be an easy way to do this without  
> making special files in /permanent.

nodeconfig needs knobs both for setting a static IP (already in
there?) and for configuring a default route on one interface.

Dave

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