[plug] Routing

[Garth Atkinson]

yeah - echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

"Shackleton, Kevin" wrote:
> 
> 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.
> >