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Re: Configuring a Linux Router Question
Hi, Shlomi!
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 05:46:12PM +0300, you wrote the following:
> I have two ethernet cards in a computer, each with its own IP address.
> each card is connected to a different computer. Now, I want to route the
> packets that are sent from A to D and from D to A, where
>
> - ---- -
> |A|--------|B C|-------|D|
> - ---- -
> Remote Local Remote
> Computer Comp. Comp.
>
> How should I configure all the routing tables? Assume that all the
> machines are Linuxes.
You shouldn't -- you just need to enable packet forwarding:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
and packets will be routed.
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