How to turn on IP forwarding?

[Stuart Sears]

On Thursday 07 October 2004 13:10, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> 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.
absolutely.
I'd forgotten that. ta, scott.

Stuart

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