heya guys, I'm trying to set up a home network between my two machines (onw windows, one linux) and my flatmate's windows box using the linux box (with two network cards in it) as a routing hub. I have currently got the linux box able to ping both windows machines (and them able to ping it) by adding the windows machines to /etc/hosts, and adding direct routes to them on the routing table. However, neither windows machine can ping the other. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward is set to 1, and I have fiddled with the options in netconf (the networking subpart of linuxconf)'s routing section (the same app I used to add the direct routes to the routing table) to attempt to get my machine to be able to forward packets. I have also looked at netcfg but no joy there. The network is set up as follows:
linux box (RedHat 7.2 (more or less stock install)): eth0 = 192.168.0.1 eth1 = 192.168.0.3 windows1: 192.168.0.2 (connected to 192.168.0.1) windows 2: 192.168.0.4 (connected to 192.168.0.3) and the routing table looks like windows1 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 eth0 windows2 192.168.0.3 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 eth1 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo both of the windows machines have the correct default gateways installed. I'm probably missing something really obvious here, but I've tried pretty much every combination of options in netconf's routing section, and I'm damned if I can think of anything else that I should do..... If anyone can see anything obviously wrong here please put me out of my misery and let me know, or if you could point me in the right direction that'd be much appreciated too. Thanks heaps in advance -d -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
