On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:43:08 +0000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I cannot get my linux box to act as a router, I'm hoping someone can help. > > My setup is sarge on a machine with 2 NICs, 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.2.1. > > I attach 192.168.1.2 to another machine with 2 NICs [192.168.1.1 and > 192.168.0.6]. This is a Win2K machine, and it routes connections from the > linux box to other machines on the 192.168.0.0/24 network. > > I now want to attach another machine [192.168.2.2] to 192.168.2.1. This > machine [192.168.2.2] can ping either NIC in the linux box, but it cannot > contact machines beyond it. > > I have used echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward. Made no difference. > > I have tried using iptables but from what I can tell, I should not have to > use that - the linux box ought to forward packets anyway.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/firewall-examples.html#RC.FIREWALL-IPTABLES AFAIK it doesn't just forward packets by default... i haven't used a linux box for NAT since kernel 2.4 though. ---------- Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
