[H-GEN] interesting problem routing

[Robert Brockway]

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On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Stephen Brine wrote:

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> Not sure where to look. I grabbed the new Mandrake 9 and installed it to be
> a ip router. Now it routes tcp packets on local 192 networks (.1.0 & .0.0)
> but will not route to internet. The setup currently is iptables with accept
> for forward, input, output (the box is behind a firewall which is a
> separate machine)
>
> The box is called eagle, internet firewall is duckling
>
>
> .1.0 <-> eagle <-> .0.0 <-> duckling <-> internet
>
> eagle has duckling as a defualt gw and can see the net and use it, all
> ports (that are opened) but .1.0 network cannot see the net apart from a
> proxy I set up.

Hi Stephen.  Since eagle can see the 'net I believe you have NAT working
ok.

Is eagle configured to act as a router?  cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

If this returns a 0, then execute this command:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

Try now.

Cheers,
	-Rob

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