[K12OSN] server not forwarding packets for Windows clients
Petre Scheie
petre at maltzen.net
Mon Jan 30 20:54:38 UTC 2006
Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 13:25, Petre Scheie wrote:
>
>>I've got a k12ltsp server providing DHCP addresses to a bunch of Windows machines. The
>>intent is to turn the Windows boxes into thin clients with Universal Boot Floppies(tm)
>>or at least dual-boot systems. The server is a two-nic config, and I installed it this
>>past weekend. But today, when people are back in the office, the Windows clients are
>>getting addresses from the DHCP on the server, but any requests directed to the internet
>>are not getting any response. I ran tracrert from a W2K box: it got as far as the
>>server but no further. It's as if the server isn't forwarding any requests that come in
>>eth1 to eth0. I turned off iptables, but that made no difference. It seems something
>>is off in the routing/NAT'ing/masquerading, but what?
>
>
> Does 'chkconfig --list nat' show that it is on in runlevel 5?
> If not, do:
> chkconfig nat on
> service nat start
>
> But I thought this should be enabled in a default k12ltsp install.
>
I think it is. I built the server in my basement and successfully tested it with some
thin clients; but I didn't try any Windows clients. But I think something else must be
going on because when I logged in at the console, while I could ping things like google
& yahoo, firefox had trouble with them: first it wouldn't load any thing, then after
shutting it down and restarting it, it could bring up a google page, but not yahoo; shut
it down and restart it again and google and yahoo are accessible, but not others. I ran
'host' on those & other websites and while I'd get an answer, I also got an error about
the parser receiving misformatted data. In /etc/resolv.conf, there were two resolver
addresses: the Linksys router, and the DNS server of the ISP. I commented out the
Linksys address, and then 'host' didn't get any more errors, but users still couldn't
connect to the internet. Here's how the network is layed out; it doesn't look like
anything special to me.
Internet-->ActionTec DSL bridge-->LinkSys Router w/wireless--> \
-->8-port switch-->K12ltsp-->24-port switch-->clients
I suppose I could check for bad packets and cables. Any other ideas of things to look for?
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