Re: Help in gatewaying

["Prem Kurian Philip" <pkphilip@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Amit,

this might be a stupid question but....Are you sure
you configured a default route from your server to
the internet ?
I assume that you have configured your Linux machine
to access the net properly and it is doing it, but unless
the routes are properly set up, the packets won't be
forwarded out of the Linux server to the external network.

The Linux gateway should be using a split arrangement
whereby the device attached to the inner lan is setup with
a private ip address etc and the  rest of the lan is similarly
configured within the same range of private ip addresses.

You can check to see if the Linux is accessible at all from
the lan by pinging it from one of the client machines on the lan
using the privately assigned ip address for the Linux
server. If this works, you will need to check the routing on the
Linux box.

Regards,
Prem Kurian Philip



- ----- Original Message -----
From: Amit Goel <linuxer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Linux India <linux-india@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 2:14 PM
Subject: Help in gatewaying


> hi ppl
>
> i installed redhat 6.0 from CHIP CD. { I am not blaming chip cd .. no
flames
> pls.)
>
> Now everything is working fine .. i can access the net thru proxy and i
can
> do email masq. and forwarding etc. Web server is also running fine,
>
> The only thing is internet is not accessible from any of the nodes on lan.
> i.e. if I ping to 202.54.1.30 from a node on my lan I get following
message
> :
>
> Request Time Out.
>
> But at the same instance if I do the same from linux server, it says usual
> success message.
>
> Thus due to this i am not able to run various s/w on nodes which use the
> gateway rather then proxy server squid for connecting to net.
>
> Please tell me how do i enable the gatewaying on my linux server.
>
> ************ Note : If I disconnect from net .. i.e. switch of the linux
> server  modem , then the nodes give the message network unreachable.
>
> Thus I think nodes are ware of the fact that there is gateway and now it
is
> not connected to net ...but then how to sove timed out problem.
>
> Amit Goel
>
>
>
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