[K12OSN] OT - Linux router - I'm stuck <-long

Tim Litwiller tim at litwiller.net
Wed Apr 7 22:10:19 UTC 2004


Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 12:30, Tim Litwiller wrote:
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>>PE router can ping each router but not internet gateway
>>RHS router can ping each router and internet gateway
>>RMS router can ping each router but not internet gateway
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>The packets are probably reaching the gateway but the gateway
>doesn't have a route back to return the echo.  Either configure
>RHS to NAT on eth0 so everything appears to come from
>172.16.1.1 or add routes on the gateway forwarding your
>private 172.x.x.x and 10.x.x.x subnets through 172.16.1.1.
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Sorry, I missed those
It has static routes setup,  back to each network with 172.16.1.1 as the 
gateway

>>DO router can ping RMS router but not the rest of the network.
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>A ping issued directly from DO will have a source address
>of 10.0.0.2.  Only RMS knows how to return a packet back
>to this address.  Add routes on the others to send 10.0.0.0/24
>back through their RMS connection.
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Trying this now, but:

PE should have a similar problem then, shouldn't it?

>Your route tables could be a bit smaller if you remove
>subnet routes that go to the same destination as the
>default route but leaving them won't hurt anything.
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I suspected that but wanted to make sure something wasn't missed

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