Re: HELP! cannot route packets between two ethernet cards

1998-05-12 Thread Seif Zadeh Hossein
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Adam Neat wrote: > > the two ethernet cards in machine "A" are 3com 3c905 PCI cards > > (as is the card in "B" if that matters). both A and B are Pentiums' > > running linux 2.0.33. the router is an ADSL "modem" and the hub is > > from 3com. Hi there, Just curious, how did

re: HELP! cannot route packets between two ethernet cards

1998-05-05 Thread id est
actually, part of my previous message should have read: B can ping the other machines in the internal network as well as _both of the cards in A_, but not the router or out past it. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /

Re: HELP! cannot route packets between two ethernet cards

1998-05-05 Thread Adam Neat
Gday This looks like something we had really BAD problems with for weeks. Firstly, even though ip_forwading is turned on in the kernel, (make sure by typing: cat /proc/kmsys | grep ip_forward it needs to be activated within the /etc/sysconfig/network file We couldnt ever get this thing workin

Re: HELP! cannot route packets between two ethernet cards

1998-05-04 Thread Pete Durst
Hi, I had the same problem, and the solution for me was fairly simple. I had to add a line to my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file to load a second file: #/etc/rc.d/rc.local # # # This starts the ip forwarding # /etc/rc.d/rc.route Then add a new file called rc.route to your /etc/rc.d directory, and have

Re: HELP! cannot route packets between two ethernet cards

1998-05-04 Thread Dave Wreski
> the two ethernet cards in machine "A" are 3com 3c905 PCI cards > (as is the card in "B" if that matters). both A and B are Pentiums' > running linux 2.0.33. the router is an ADSL "modem" and the hub is > from 3com. I think you may have screwed up your diagram somehow. You had both machine

HELP! cannot route packets between two ethernet cards

1998-05-04 Thread id est
after *endless* months trying to live with a NT internet server which performed horribly and crashed regularly (the record was 19 times in *one* hour), the management at my company at last agreed to try out a machine running RedHat linux. hurrah! BUT i'm having a problem with forwarding IP traff