Routing question!!

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

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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