I have done that already.. and it doesn't work, thatz y i think it is so strange ----- Original Message ----- From: Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Kevin Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 1:42 PM Subject: Re: Internal routing
> > Kevin Cheng wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have a problem regrading the debian linux (kernel 2.3) internal > > routing. I have 2 NICs installed on my machine, one to the local LAN > > and the other one to the internet. I should have all the things setup > > correctly, like ipconfig and route... > > I can ping the outside world and the local LAN computers from > > my machine while I can also ping the 2 NICs' IP in my machine from the > > local LAN's computers. The strange thing is that I CANNOT ping the > > outside world from the local network. I have already ensure the > > ipforwarding is on. (set to 1) > > > > I have no clue on this. > > Could anyone help me out on this? Thanx a lot. > > It sounds like you need to setup your internal machines to use you > router machine (the one with 2 NICs) as their gateway. > > If your internal machines are Linux, you can type: > # route add default gw router_machine_name > This only works if there's already a route in the route table to > router_machine_name (sounds like there is from your description). > > If they're Windows, you can put the gateway IP in the network setup > somewhere. > > Matthew > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
