[H-GEN] Re: Unix vs NT (religious war :-)

[Robert Brockway]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Robert Brockway <robert at blake.humbug.org.au>)

root <dougy at gargoyle.apana.org.au> wrote:
: (Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs root <dougy at gargoyle.apana.org.au>)

: Thanks Robert .... I'm just in middle of renumbering eth0's so I can
: find 
: another IP address so ppp0 & eth0 have one each instead of sharing
: 203.3.126.129

: I can ping internet IP's & LAN IP's OK ..... that should indicate
: packets are going wherever they should I guess

The router being able to ping the world and also the lan does not
necessarily mean that the boxes on the lan can route to the world -
definately check that /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward has a 1 in it.

: The GUI thingy from Redhat seems to do that stuff 

Hopefully :)

:> 
:> Then, setup the route to the lan on the router itself.  Each client on the
:> lan will also need to have a route setup for the lan.  I've used IPs here
:> from a private subnet but substitute for your own IPs of course.

: Thats a confusing bit ...... is it simply a matter of issuing those
: commands for every host or is there something more involved ??

I left that vague as the lan machines are win boxes aren't they?  You'll
need to setup those boxes for the lan as you normally would.

: Whats the situation if there is already a route in existance ??

As long as it is the correct route :)  I'm not sure how well win boxen
handle multiple routes, so better to keep it simple.

: do I need to get concerned with subnet on the internet connection ??

Depends what you mean?  The lan is a subnet and the netmask,etc must be
set appropriately.  I hope that makes sense :)
Cheers,
	-Robert

--Robert Brockway B.Sc.  Email: robert at blake.humbug.org.au
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I'll try anything once, and if I like it, I'll take it up as a hobby!

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