[PLUG] RedHat 8.0 Routing question

[Bill Barry]

crossover cables can give some flaky connections. Do you have
a hub you can temporarily test the system with?


On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 08:49:45PM +0000, gilmanhunt at attbi.com wrote:
> They are connected via a crossover cable.  I will be needing port forwarding - but at this 
> point I can't verify that the systems are working right ;(
> > 
> > Why wouldn't you connect the two 192.168.1.X nics together?
> > That got my sys's going last night, until I tried adding IP forwarding.
> > Grr.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 13 November 2002 at 20:15, gilmanhunt at attbi.com wrote:
> > 
> > I have: 
> > 1) box with a nic of 192.168.1.2
> > 2) box with a nic of 192.168.1.1 and a nic of 10.10.10.222
> > 
> > 2a) the box (gilgamesh- maybe I should have given it a more tractable name) with 
> > the 2 
> > nics has this as it's route table:
> > [root at gilgamesh root]# route -n
> > Kernel IP routing table
> > Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
> > 192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
> > 10.10.10.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth1
> > 127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
> > 0.0.0.0         10.10.10.1      0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth1
> > 2b) This box has "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward"
> > 
> > 2c) Box one and two are connected by a crossover ethernet cable
> > between the 2 nics of the 192.168.1.x network
> > 
> > 3) I can't ping 192.168.1.1 from box one (the inside box) nor can
> > I ping 192.168.1.2 from two (the external box) : the result is
> > "destination host unreachable".
> > 
> > So obviously (to me) I'm having some sort of network routing     
> > problem. Both computers are running redhat 8.0.                  
> > 
> > 
> > 
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