Re: routing between different subnets on same if.

[miquels@traveler.cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]

In article <20010127194659.A1326@MourOnLine.dnsalias.org>,
 <patrick.mourlhon@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Paul Jakma wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 patrick.mourlhon@wanadoo.fr wrote:
>> 
>> > Hi Paul,
>> >
>> > I just think you might look for aliasing on your linux box.
>> 
>> i have the aliasing, the aliased machine can ping IP's on both
>> subnets. The machine is supposed to be a router though and clients on
>> both subnets are setup to use it as their default router.. but it
>> doesn't route... it notices that both IP's are on the same link and so
>> just sends ICMP redirects. which doesn't help. :(
>> 
>> i need linux to completely route between 2 IP's even though they are
>> on the same link.

Did you enable forwarding with echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ?

>did you install routed on the linux machine ?

Routed is a daemon which speaks RIP to other routers. That isn't
needed at all in this case.

Mike.

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