Routing <-- Ignore that last one

Entelin plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
26 May 2003 16:17:00 -0700


Sorry I made a dumb mistake it was just my routing, it works like I
expected it to.

On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 16:00, Entelin wrote:
> I intend to use iptables for that purpose as its role is to route
> between two vlans and provide filtering on a lan. However I am trying to
> get the routing working first.
> 
> I have two nic's, an address assigned to each one is 192.168.1.0/24 and
> one is 172.16.2.0/28. I have enabled ip_forward. From the box i can ping
> out both interfaces. However its still not routing traffic. My iptables
> policys are blank and default policys are set to all accept.
> 
> Any Ideas ? Thanks.
> 
> On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 06:29, George Toft wrote:
> > Entelin wrote:
> > > 
> > > I need to configure a linux box to route ip, I thought all i needed to
> > > do was to turn on ip_forward in /proc. Is ip tables required for this or
> > > no ?
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Entelin <entelin@users.sourceforge.net>
> > 
> > 
> > iptables is not required to make it a router, but I recommend using
> > iptables to secure the box (at a minimum).
> > 
> > George
-- 
Entelin <entelin@users.sourceforge.net>