[Gllug] routing problems (ip forwarding)

[Xander D Harkness]

Liad Bokovsky wrote:

>send the following data as well:
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>netmasks.
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255.255.255.0 on all

>routing table on the linux machine (netstat -rn)
>
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt 
Iface
192.168.2.0   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0  U        40 0          0 eth1
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U        40 0          0 
eth0
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U        40 0          0 lo
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1   0.0.0.0         UG       40 0          0 eth0

>check if ip forwarding is really enabled (cat
>/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward should return 1).
>
The cat command did return 1

Kind regards
Xander

>
>Liad
>
>On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 04:49:49PM +0100 , Xander D Harkness mentioned that:
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>>I have a laptop I am trying to route through.
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>>The laptop has a wireless card and a built-in ethernet port.
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>>I am trying to use the laptop as a wireless router for my Zaurus.
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>>ipaddress for ethernet is 192.168.1.59 (internet gateway 192.168.1.1)
>>ipaddress for wireless is 192.168.2.1
>>ipaddress for zaurus is 192.168.1.190 (gateway 192.168.2.1)
>>
>>I can ping the laptop (192.168.2.1) from the Zaurus.
>>I can ping the zaurus (192.168.2.190) from the laptop
>>I cannot ping through the laptop in either direction.
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>>I have disabled any firewall and enabled IP forwarding.
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>>The laptop is running limbo2 (latest RH beta) kernel version 2.4.18-5.58
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>>Has anyone an idea as to why?
>>
>>Kind regards
>>Xander
>>
>>[root at lappy network-scripts]# echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>>[root at lappy network-scripts]# ifconfig
>>eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:90:F5:07:BB:FC
>>         inet addr:192.168.1.59  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>>         UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>>         RX packets:332 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>         TX packets:442 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>         collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>>         RX bytes:305411 (298.2 Kb)  TX bytes:40260 (39.3 Kb)
>>         Interrupt:10 Base address:0x3200
>>
>>eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:2D:27:84:93
>>         inet addr:192.168.2.1  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>>         UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>>         RX packets:115 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>         TX packets:4 errors:35 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>         collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>>         RX bytes:10188 (9.9 Kb)  TX bytes:5640 (5.5 Kb)
>>         Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100
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>>lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>>         inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>>         UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>>         RX packets:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>         TX packets:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>         collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>>         RX bytes:4694 (4.5 Kb)  TX bytes:4694 (4.5 Kb)
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