Re: Home Network won't work
From: timk (timk_at_harbornet.com)
Date: 09/08/03
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Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 21:33:33 -0700
Bit Twister wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 20:45:27 -0700, timk wrote:
>
>>Help - can't get the home network setup correctly!
>>
>>I am trying to setup a home network/firewall machine. I have loaded
>>RedHat 9.0 on this machine. It is connected to a cable router on eth0
>>and a single dual-boot PC on eth1 (eventually it will be connected to a
>>hub - once it is working).
>
>
> Go ahead and cable through hub. If not, you need a crossover cable
> nic to nic.
>
Okay, but what is the difference? Is there something special about a
crossover cable?
>
>>I can get the network machine to boot-up and see the internet. It also
>>obtains (dynamically) an ip-address from my ISP.
>>
>>The problem is that I can not get the home side PC (either in windows or
>>linux) to work.
>
>
> in /etc/sysctl.conf
> net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0 <==== set = 1
>
Yeah, it is set to 1. Any other suggestions I can try? I still don't
understand the route stuff below...
>
>>The route and ifconfig give some different results then I have seen and
>>I am not sure how to fix? Any ideas?
>>
>>Specifically, the inet and Bcast addresses are different, WHY?:
>>inet: 123.151.60.244
>>Bcast: 123.151.63.255
>>
>>Also, the route has an entry I do not know where it is coming from, any
>>ideas? How dow I remove it?
>>Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
>>169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
>>
>>Here is the full-output...
>>ifconfig eth0:
>>eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:54:07:F5:18
>> inet addr:123.151.60.244 Bcast:123.151.63.255 Mask:255.255.252.0
>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
>> RX packets:424836 errors:139 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:206
>> TX packets:6657 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>> RX bytes:34687028 (33.0 Mb) TX bytes:536985 (524.3 Kb)
>> Interrupt:5 Base address:0xc000
>>
>>ifconfig eth1:
>>eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:18:DD:41:E7
>> inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
>> UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
>> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>> TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>> RX bytes:42540 (41.5 Kb) TX bytes:504 (504.0 b)
>> Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6000
>>
>>and finally route:
>>Kernel IP routing table
>>Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
>>Iface
>>192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
>>123.151.60.0 * 255.255.252.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
>>169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
>>127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
>>default 123.151.60.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
>>
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