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Re: Linux router problem



Hi,

By default RH is not configured as a router, that is, IP_Forwarding is
off, edit /etc/sysconfig/network and change the "forward_ipv4=false" to
"=yes" then issue: "/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart"

That ought to do it.

Vadim Dostman wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I setup an intel Linux box with two NE2000 nics and try to use it as a
> router for our test subnet here at VocalTec. The test subnet is 15.15.15.0
> and the main LAN is 209.117.177.0. Here's what my table looks like:
> 
> [root@lab /root]# route -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
> Iface
> 209.117.177.1   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        2
> eth0
> 209.117.177.0   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0       10
> eth0
> 15.15.15.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        5
> eth1
> 127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        4 lo
> 0.0.0.0         209.117.177.1   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        3
> eth0
> 
> As you could have guessed both nics are on same physical network.... If I
> do load routed it doesn't help. But I beleive I don't need it...
> 
> For some reason I can't get beyond the box (make it act as a router), but I
> can ping both nics from inside both subnets (weird). What could be the
> problem?
> 
> There's a couple of other things that might give you a tip: first of all I
> only installed the minimum packages from RedHat 5.2 CD, since I don't want
> any extra stuff on it; second -- my telnet sessions get disconnected after
> 1 minute of inactivity (which is extremely annoyn and I don't notice that
> on other RedHat boxes)
> 
> Thanks for any help!!!!
> 
> Vadim Dostman

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