From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Damion de Soto Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 23:03:21 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Routing problem 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 gaston wrote: > Problem: > This configuration didn't work. From the clients network (208.53.164.0) I > could only reach the Cisco router but was unable to reach Internet. > > The only quick solution was to connect Switch 1 with Switch 2. > Any ideas why this didn't work? did you have IP forwarding enabled and the appropriate iptables rules on the linux box ? for pure routing: echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT If you already done that, where does a traceroute from the clients' network (208.53.164.0) go ? does it try to go through 208.53.164.254? does it go anywhere after ? good luck. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Damion de Soto - Software Engineer email: damion@snapgear.com SnapGear --- ph: +61 7 3435 2809 | Custom Embedded Solutions fax: +61 7 3891 3630 | and Security Appliances web: http://www.snapgear.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/