Routing question

pll at lanminds.com pll at lanminds.com
Fri May 9 15:47:24 EDT 2003


In a message dated: Fri, 09 May 2003 15:32:25 EDT
Ben Boulanger said:

>On Fri, 9 May 2003 pll at lanminds.com wrote:
>> >Yup, so pull that GATEWAY out and put it in /etc/sysconfig/network 
>> >instead... I imagine that's been touched on already.
>> 
>> Which one, both?
>
>Yep, pull em both.  It'll work either way, but keeping it seperate from 
>each interface is a good idea.

Sure, but which one do I put into /etc/sysconfig/network?  Both, or 
just one?

>	These are really questions about "does 35.0/24 know how to get to 
>	37.0/24?" and visa versa.  If the answer is yes... and you still
>	can't ping 10.241.37.70 from Paul, you may want to be sure that 
>	the linux box isn't arping across itself... there's something in 
>	/proc to turn that off.

Hmmm. okay.

>	If the answer is "no" then you'll want static routes between 
>	10.241.37.1 and 10.241.35.1.  Either that, or you can turn on
>	ip forwarding and have the linux box bridge the networks
>	(generally a bad thing if you're not the network admin)

Right.  I don't really want forwarding or bridging, I just want to 
get to each NIC from anywhere.  This shouldn't be that complicated, 
why is it ? :)

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