How to turn on IP forwarding?

[Scot L. Harris]

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 06:42, Stuart Sears wrote:
> On Thursday 07 October 2004 07:27, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > I'm trying to make the machine amito forward packets from machine
> > claremont to machine home.  Claremont pings amito and amito pings home,
> > but claremont doesn't ping home.  All these machines are directly
> > connected via ethernet claremont to amito on 192.168.10.x and amito to
> > home on 172.16.0.x.  I have IP forwarding turned on in amito:
> 
> just for a little bit of clarification...
> 
> what's the routing table like on amito? (route -n to show IPs)
> I take it that amito has two NICs? (ip addresses?)

You should also look at the routing table on home.  It has to know how
to route the packets back to claremont via amito.


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