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Re: ethernet routing



On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 10:46:06AM -0500, Debian User wrote:
> in a previous post, i asked this question but not sure if an answer 
> was found ...
> 
> 
> i am trying to set up a network in my office at work. 
> 
> +---------------+     +---------------+
> | 192.168.1.100 |-----| 192.168.1.1   |
> | 255.255.255.0 |     | 255.255.255.0 |   +---------------+
> +---------------+     | 10.20.1.158   |---| 10.20.4.48    |
>                       | 255.255.0.0   |   | 255.255.0.0   |
>                       +---------------+   +---------------+
> 
> the 192.168.1.100 machine can ping the 192.168.1.1 and 10.20.1.158 
> interface but not the 10.20.4.48 interface. the 10.20.1.158 interface 
> can ping the 10.20.4.48 interface.
> 
> my routing table is as follows:
> 
> dest         gateway    genmask       flags metric ref use iface
> 192.186.1.0  *          255.255.255.0 u     0      0   0   eth1
> 10.20.0.0    *          255.255.0.0   u     0      0   0   eth0
> default      10.20.4.48 0.0.0.0       ug    0      0   0   eth0
> 
> 
> 
> any suggestions as to what i am doing wrong?

Not turning on IP routing?  cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward.  If it's
0, routing is off.

I suppose TDW for this is to set ip_forward=1 in /etc/network/options.
What this does is effectively echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

A

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