On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 01:03, Damion de Soto wrote: > gaston wrote: > > Problem: > > This configuration didn't work. From the clients network (208.53.164.0) I > > could only reach the Cisco router but was unable to reach Internet. > > > > The only quick solution was to connect Switch 1 with Switch 2. > > Any ideas why this didn't work? > > did you have IP forwarding enabled and the appropriate iptables rules on the linux > box ? > for pure routing: > > echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT > iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT > iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT > > If you already done that, where does a traceroute from the clients' network > (208.53.164.0) go ? does it try to go through 208.53.164.254? > does it go anywhere after ?
in addition, was the cisco aware that the route to 208.53.164.0/24 was thru the linux ? post the routing table from the cisco also. still good luck -- Ronny Aasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
