[plug] Routing

Shackleton, Kevin kshackleton at agric.wa.gov.au
Sat Aug 19 17:28:38 WST 2000


Hmm, there's an odd thing - it's 0 - good guess.  I guess that means the
network config file isn't getting the message through to the network startup
script.  Any further brilliant ideas?

K

> ----------
> From: 	Garth Atkinson[SMTP:garth at cclinic.com.au]
> Reply To: 	plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Sent: 	Saturday, 19 August 2000 17:07
> To: 	plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: 	Re: [plug] Routing
> 
> Hi Kevin
> 
> Do a cat of /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward and confirm it contains a
> "1".
> 
> Garth
> 
> "Shackleton, Kevin" wrote:
> > 
> > I sound a little thick here - but I can't seem to get a box to route.
> > 
> > Running RH6.2, I've set the /etc/sysconfig/networks FORWARD_IP4 to YES
> and I
> > have two working cards, eth0 and eth1.  The routing table has
> automatically
> > added the two routes which are "U"p, not "UH".  I've restarted the
> network.
> > Yet no traffic is passing from one network to other, either way.  I've
> done
> > "route add"s to other hosts, and these hosts can ping the further
> routing
> > card address.  tcpdump running on both interfaces shows no traffic
> getting
> > through.  What have I overlooked or done wrong? (The two networks are
> Class
> > B - not 192.168...)
> > 
> > K.
> 



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