RedHat 9 stops routing internal packets? Begging for helphere..... please...

[Benjamin J. Weiss]

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, c_ elber wrote:

> >What happens if you turn the firwall off. (Service iptables stop). Also
> >check the traceroute result ??
> >
> >VK
> 
> VK;
> Thank you so much for the offer of help!  When I do service iptables stop 
> then I can no longer  ping or traceroute outside addresses from any internal 
> address.  I can still ping the router itself but not beyond it. For a 
> traceroute, from a client box, with iptables stopped I get the address of my 
> router and nothing beyond it. From the router itself I can still access the 
> outside which is how I'm emailing.
> 
> With iptables running I can ping and get a full traced route to a 
> destination such as www.google.com, from a client box, but I can only bring 
> up say a small piece of the page in a browser before it times out.
> Thanks again,

IIRC, you're probably using iptables as your NAT router.

What's the output of iptables -L?

What's the output of netstat -r?

What's the output of cat /etc/sysctl.conf?

What's the output of cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward?

Ben