From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Raghuveer Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 07:44:08 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Linux router configuration?? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Ryan Johnson wrote: >I am going to assume you want the most basic router, just two interfaces. > >1.) Make sure both network cards have been detected. >ifconfig eth0 >ifconfig eth1 > Can I have both the network cards in the same n/w...? Becoz If I try to use both NIC's with the same n/w, running <$ route -n> we can see either eth1 or eth0 repeated twice. Pls let me know where is the problem..? Regards -Raghu >2.) Set up each interface on its own network, make sure the interface has been activated, you can use ifconfig for this. >3.) issue the command >echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward >to enable ip fowarding, w/o this the kernel will not send packets between interfaces >4.) set the clients behind the router to point to the internal ip of your router > >Any changes made to the system will have to be initialized during the boot process. > >Of course if you have ip addresses that you would like to nat/masq behind the router, you will have to use iptables. > >You really should be more specific on your needs. > >Good luck. > > > > >>Good morning at all, thanks for previous help, but I have another ask. I have a few experience of Linux world's, and I need to configure a Linux PC as router, what are the steps? What do I do? >>Thanks. >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl >http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/