[Gllug] Help with setting up a Router

[Bush, Jonathan]

John

The reason I need static routing is because all those routes to our Japanese
and US office will never change, and they are sent through a VPN. 

You mention about setting them up in the RH network configuration tool, how
would I do this.

Jonathan

PS thanks to every one who has help so far, I'm a lot further than I was
yesterday.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Winters [mailto:john at linuxemporium.co.uk]
Sent: 17 September 2002 13:01
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: RE: [Gllug] Help with setting up a Router


On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 12:49, Bush, Jonathan wrote:
> John 
> 
> Well I have three in there but I'm think of only using two. As one would
> connect to our firewall( reason why I don't need firewalling, but would
> still like to learn), the other connect to the other lease line and the
> third connect to our local LAN. Think of using only two as I might have a
> problem with NAT's.
> 
> I have tried echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward but every time I reboot
> it goes back to 0.

Yes, it will.  All the contents of /proc are transitory.  To get the
effect every time you boot (assuming RH7.3) edit /etc/sysctl.conf and
change the obvious field.  This will cause the "echo 1..." bit to be
done for you as the system boots.

> other thing is my static route disappear when I reboot.

Likewise.  You need to put them in the relevant configuration file. 
This is probably easiest done with the RH network configuration tool.

Why do you need separate static routes?

John

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