Re: Dual Homed Network Problem
> On Mon, 3 May 2004, Mostafa wrote:
>
>> Sorry I have posted this problem yesterday and I thought I solved it but
>> apparently I did not.
>>
>> I have Debian 3.0 on Ultra 10 SPARC machine. It has two network
>> interfaces
>> eth0 on 192.168.1.0 with IP 192.168.1.20
>> eth1 on 10.5.5.0 with IP 10.5.5.20
>>
>>
>> The problem that I have is that machines on the 10.5.5.x subnet cannot
>> ping the IP 192.168.1.20 and machines on 192.168.1.x subnet cannot ping
>> the IP 10.5.5.20.This is only unique to this box. Other dual homed
>> machines running Windows or Mandrake are accessible from both sides.
>>
>
> Is this machine acting as the router between these two networks? If so
> have you turned IP forwarding on on this machine? The result of the
> command 'cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward' should be 1.
>
>
No. It is not acting as a router but just a dual homed server to serve
DHCP and DNS for both subnets. But anyway I have enabled forwarding and
this didn't solve the problem.
Mostafa
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