On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:14:23 -0400 (EDT)
"Ji Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have three linux machines, and I want to let one of them forward packets
> betwen the other two. The forwarding node has two ethernet cards,
> connecting the two two machines respectively. However, when I ping between
> the two end points, the forwarding node can receive the ping requests at
> its eth0, but it never forwards them to its eth1. So is the reverse
> direction.
> 
> The forwarding node is Redhat 7.2, kernel 2.4.7-10. The two end points are
> FC3, 2.6.9-1.667smp.
> 
> What we have done to enable IP forwarding on the RH7.2 node are:
> (1) In /etc/sysconfig/network, add "FORWARD_IPV4=yes"
> (2) "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward".
> (3) Change "net.ipv4.ip_forward=1" in /etc/sysctl.conf.
> (4)
> "echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0/rp_filter"
> "echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth1/rp_filter"
> (5) We tried "iptables -F" to flush the rules, but ip forwarding still
> doesn' work, so we add some rules as follows. We run "iptables" to
> configure firewall to enable IP forwarding.
> iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -j ACCEPT
> iptables -A FORWARD -i eth1 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT

route add net comp1-net gw comp1-ip
route add net comp2-net gw comp2-ip

on router .

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