Re: Configure RH6.2 box as a router

[Jamie Ostrowski <jamie getsetnet net>]

      Hi Jeff. Have you read the HOWTO on ip-forwarding. It is a good
document that walks you through the process of setting up a linux box as a
router. http://www.linuxdocs.org and go to the HOWTO section.


   - Jme





On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Jeff CTR Vandenbussche wrote:

>      I have one box I got preloaded with 6.2 from VAlinux and another one 
>      that came preloaded with 6.2 from Penguin Computing.  They both have 2 
>      ethernet cards (eepro100's) As far as I can tell I have setup 
>      networking identical on both boxes.  However my network manager 
>      Netview for AIX running on a third box, detects both eth0 and eth1 on 
>      the VAlinux box, but only detects eth0 on the Penguin box.  I have 
>      contacted Penguin, but they are stumped( as am I ).  
>      
>      It looks like the VAlinux box is being detected as a router but the 
>      Penguin box is not.  Can anyone help me set up the Penguin box to act 
>      as a router? How does on set up IP forwarding?  Is all that has to be 
>      done is change /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward from 0 to 1, or change 
>      this is /etc/sysctl.
>      
>      Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I am currently scheduled to 
>      send these boxes to the customer's site next week, so I don't have 
>      much time to figure this out.
>      
>      Thanks,
>      
>      Jeff
> 
> 
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