On 07/10/2004 09:13, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 14:27, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > 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 > > Okay.. IP forwarding is turned on. > > > 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 > > Cool. Default traffic which is not destined for local net is sent to the > gateway. > > > 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? > > Can you tell us what is the routing table on claremont? since amito can > ping home, it means there's connectivity. > > But since claremont cannot ping home, this could mean several things. > > 1. Firewall? > 2. Wrong routing table. > > > BTW: What is the host 169.254.0.0 for? How does it get into the routing > > table? > > This is so-called zeroconf configuration. Google it up. I forget. > > > Thanks - jon > > -- > Ow Mun Heng > Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel > 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive > Neuromancer 15:08:52 up 5:48, 5 users, load average: 0.97, 0.68, 0.63 To make it permanent edit the /etc/sysctl.conf file other wise you will need to script it in bashrc. Cheers -- Chadley Wilson Redhat Certified Technician Cert Number: 603004708291270 Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers ==================================== Exercise freedom, Use LINUX =====================================
