[H-GEN] router woes (no longer redhat specific)

[Scott Pullen]

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  Matt,

Which box is 192.168.1.254.  You are telling the client box that this is 
the machine it has to talk to, to access the net but from your info I 
can see no box on your network with this address.  Try making your 
default route point to the address of your adsl connected interface, 
then it can get out.

That is only half the problem because if you haven't got the router set 
up to masquerade the packets from your private network then you  will 
never get a reply from the box that you send the initial packets to.

I assume that you have ipchains/iptables set up on the router?!?  You 
need to tell the router to masquerade the packets with something like:

ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.0/24 -d !192.168.1.254 -j MASQ

Sorry but I still use ipchains but the command should be almost 
identical in iptables (at least I think it is :~)3  )


Hope this helps,

Cheers,

Scott.





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