Routing Question

Christopher K. Johnson ckjohnson at gwi.net
Wed Mar 10 16:54:51 UTC 2004


John Rowan wrote:

>   I've reviewed the configs on both the 7.3 and 9.0 to the best of my 
> abilities but can't figure out why the 9.0 machine won't forward 
> packets onto the 2 network from 5 or from the 2 network onto the 
> 172.25 Token Ring.


Did you turn on ip forwarding?

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

To make it persistent edit the line in /etc/sysctl.conf:
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1

Chris

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