Am Fr, den 27.02.2004 schrieb linux server um 06:45:
For some reason I am having a tough time getting my linux server to act as a router. Can someone give me some basic instructions so that I can figure out what I am missing
You should ive some information about the task the route has to perform:
- routing between two offfical standard networks
- routing from a private network (home/office) with adress translation
- what type of networks (ethernet - ethernet / cable - ethernet / ...)
- firewall requirements
As a first information you may study http://www.linuxguruz.com/iptables/howto/2.4routing.html
Peter
for just having basic routing functions, check in /proc/sys/net/ipv4 whether your ip_forward is set to 1. if no, do echo 1 > ip_forward and your fedora box should immediately handle as a router.
check with /sbin/route, whether your routes to your other networks are set clearly, specially the default gateway.
as mentionned above, this does just routing between 2 tcp/ip-networks, no masquerading/NAT and other security issues. To configure this out easily and quickly i could recommend firestarter.
HTH Roger