I'm trying to make the machine amito forward packets from machine
claremont to machine home. Claremont pings amito and amito pings home,
but claremont doesn't ping home. All these machines are directly
connected via ethernet claremont to amito on 192.168.10.x and amito to
home on 172.16.0.x. I have IP forwarding turned on in amito:
amito $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
1
Claremont should have its gateway set up OK:
claremont $ route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.10.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default amito.localdoma 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
and should know where home is:
claremont $ cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.10.1 amito.localdomain amito
192.168.10.2 claremont.localdomain claremont
172.16.0.1 home home.localdomain
What have I missed?
BTW: What is the host 169.254.0.0 for? How does it get into the routing table?
Thanks - jon
