Routing question!!
Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima
tony at cantech.net.au
Thu Nov 29 00:17:13 GMT 2001
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Mark A. Tagliaferro wrote:
> I have the following system where I'm using Suse 7.1 on the servers:
>
> 172.22.2.0/24 172.22.3.0/24 172.22.4.0/24
> Clients Clients Clients
> Internet Win95 Win95 Win95
> | | | |
> +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+
> | Srv1 | | Srv2 | | Srv3 | | srv4 |
> +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+
> | | | |
> +---------------+---------------+---------------+
> backbone network 172.22.1.0/24
>
> On srv1 I have masquerading, NAT, firewall etc running and it's working well.
> >From the other servers I have access to the internet. The problem comes is on
> the client side. Even though they are connecting (via samba) to the linux
> servers they are not getting internet access. They manage to ping the nic on
> the server but nothing on the backbone and obviously nothing on the net.
>
> The servers are abviously not routing the packets. Can this be simply solved
> by fixing the route.conf or do i need to set up masquerading on all the
> servers? Should I also be doing something to the samba config file?
Nothing to do with samba.
Try:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
That will tell your servers (Svr[234]) that they can "route".
If that works then read the suse docs on how to make the change stick
worse case, add it to rc.local
Yours Tony.
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