Internet Access

[Keith Lynn]

Thank you for your help. This solved the problem. 

Keith Lynn
Systems Administrator
School of Computer and Information Sciences
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL 36608
Phone: (334) 460-6390
Fax: (334) 460-7274
Alternative E-mail: lynn at gateway.cis.usouthal.edu
URL: http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/~lynn/


On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 ctooley at amoa.org wrote:

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> Did you turn on ip_forward?  If not you do that by:
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> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
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> This turns on the ability to forward packets that come to that machine and are
> bound for somewhere else.
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> Chris Tooley
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> Keith Lynn <lynn at tsunami.cis.usouthal.edu> on 03/15/2001 09:23:04 AM
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> Hello everyone,
>      This question may be slightly off the subject, but I thought someone
> might be able to help me with this.
>      I run several computer labs, each running Windows NT 4.0 clients with
> a Samba server running on RedHat Linux.
>      What I would like to do is have this server not only run Samba but
> act as a pseudorouter. That is, there is a main router in our University,
> and each client is set to use that router as its gateway.
>      What I want to do is change the gateway on each client to the server
> running Samba, and then as needed shut off routed so that packets can't
> get to the real router. However, I have not been able to get routed to
> work on the server.
>      The specifics of the problem are that a client machine has IP address
> 192.168.103.11, and the Samba server has IP address 192.168.103.149. I've
> tried running routed and setting up /etc/gateways, but I can't get
> 192.168.103.11 to ping any machines outside the subnet. Has anyone had
> experience using routed? Thanks.
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> Keith Lynn
> Systems Administrator
> School of Computer and Information Sciences
> University of South Alabama
> Mobile, AL 36608
> Phone: (334) 460-6390
> Fax: (334) 460-7274
> Alternative E-mail: lynn at gateway.cis.usouthal.edu
> URL: http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/~lynn/
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