I once had overly complex routing tables set up which caused me great pain
and confusing problems such as you are describing. What are your routing
tables? eg route -n from all 3 machines.
> George Gambill wrote:
> >
> > Trying to set up a router (RH8) between a 192.168.100.0/255.255.255.0 subnet
> > and a 10.1.0.0/255.255.0.0 subnet.
> >
> > Hosts involved are
> >
> > winslow 192.168.100,253
> >
> > gwg 192.168.100.252 (eth0)
> > gwg 10.1.1.68 (eth1)
> >
> > nowhere 10.1.1.66
> >
> > >From winslow (aka 192.168.100.253) I can ping:
> > gwg (aka itself)
> > 192.168.100.252 (aka GWG eth0)
> > 10.1.1.68 (aka GWG eth1)
> >
> > but not:
> > nowhere (aka 10.1.1.66)
> > 10.1.1.66 (aka nowhere)
> >
> > >From GWG (the router) I can ping:
> > winslow (aka 192.168.100.253)
> > 192.168.100.253 (aka winslow eth0)
> >
> > gwg (aka itself)
> > 192.168.100.252 (aka itself eth0)
> > 10.1.1.68 (aka itself eth1)
> >
> > nowhere (aka 10.1.1.66)
> > 10.1.1.66 (aka nowhere)
> >
> > from nowhere (aka 10.1.1.66) I can ping:
> >
> > gwg
> > 10.1.1.68
> > 192.168.100.252
> >
> > but not:
> > winslow
> > 192.168.100.253
> >
> > Using Webmin on the router (gwg) and looking at the firewall, it shows under
> > "packet filtering":
> > "FORWARD" default "Accept" with no other rules
> > "INPUT" default "Accept" with no other rules
> > "OUTPUT" default "Accept" with no other rules
> >
> > Any ideas why I can't ping nowhere (10.1.1.66) from winslow
> > (192.168.100.253)?
> >
> > George
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>
> Hi George,
>
> What is the status of IP Forwarding on the router (gwg)? cat
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>
> George
>
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