----- Original Message ----- From: Kevin Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org>; Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 2:16 PM Subject: Re: Internal routing
> I have done that already.. and it doesn't work, thatz y i think it is so > strange > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Kevin Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 1:42 PM > Subject: Re: Internal routing > > > > > Kevin Cheng wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a problem regrading the debian linux (kernel 2.3) internal > > > routing. I have 2 NICs installed on my machine, one to the local LAN > > > and the other one to the internet. I should have all the things setup > > > correctly, like ipconfig and route... > > > I can ping the outside world and the local LAN computers from > > > my machine while I can also ping the 2 NICs' IP in my machine from the > > > local LAN's computers. The strange thing is that I CANNOT ping the > > > outside world from the local network. I have already ensure the > > > ipforwarding is on. (set to 1) > > > > > > I have no clue on this. > > > Could anyone help me out on this? Thanx a lot. > > > > It sounds like you need to setup your internal machines to use you > > router machine (the one with 2 NICs) as their gateway. > > > > If your internal machines are Linux, you can type: > > # route add default gw router_machine_name > > This only works if there's already a route in the route table to > > router_machine_name (sounds like there is from your description). > > > > If they're Windows, you can put the gateway IP in the network setup > > somewhere. > > > > Matthew > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null > > > > >
