[PLUG] Routing Query

Stafford A. Rau srau at rauhaus.org
Mon Sep 16 18:45:58 UTC 2002


* Richard Langis <richard.langis at sun.com> [020916 08:57]:
> Since the wireless AP is on eth1 on the fileserver, I put the wireless 
> network on the 192.168.2.0 network, whereas the wired network is 
> 192.168.1.0.  The default route is pointed at the firewall.  The laptop 
> can login to the fileserver, and ping the 1.252 interface from itself 
> (not only while logged in remotely).  It cannot, however, ping any other 
> host on the 1.x network.

Does your laptop, when connected via wireless, have a default route
pointing at 192.168.2.1 (or whatever the fileserver's eth1 address is)?

Does your fileserver have ip routing turned on?
(cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward should equal 1 if the fileserver is
running linux)

--Stafford




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