Re: routing

[Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>]

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 18:32:21 EST Daniel Stringfield 
(servo@southeast.net) wrote:

> hello all.
> I have TWO Debian boxes sitting side by side (plus more, but they aren't
> hooked up as of yet)
> 
> My problem is:
> 
> When DIALD is running, nothing works over ethernet.  If I run TCPDUMP, I
> can see traffic going OUT, and I can see the other box sending data, but
> not as a response per se.  Machine with modem is a P133 box running the
> latest diald from bo, (have never been able to get it to work, with any 
> available diald version)  it has a 33.6k modem that I use to get onto the
> Internet with.  On the other debian box, I have nothing except ethernet,
> for a connection to the outside world.
> 
> If DIALD is running, the other machine won't answer ICMP echo requests, or
> anything else.  If diald is disabled, ethernet works ok.

A thought: do you have IP forwarding (CONFIG_IP_FORWARD) set in your kernel ?

Phil.



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