On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 17:13, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 00:13, 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 > > > 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 > > > > > > claremont $ cat /etc/hosts > > > 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. > > The above routing table **is** the routing table in claremont. > The firewall in amito is turned off. Perhaps you can try to do a tcpdump/ethereal trace -- Ow Mun Heng Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive Neuromancer 17:40:00 up 8:19, 9 users, load average: 0.91, 0.48, 0.38