routes are killing me - how to?

[William Carty]

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> From: yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> [mailto:yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com]On Behalf
> Of Stefan Jeglinski
> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 11:06 PM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: routes are killing me - how to?
>
>
> So, now we get back to the routing table, which was my original
> question. The assertion that the answer to my question is to set
> ip_forward =1 as above is quite frankly wrong. It was claimed that
> doing so would "just work." It does not. Something else is wrong with
> my setup, and no one seems to be able to identify that issue.
>
> I still can't tell if I must combine the echo command with *further*
> iptables commands, just to get packets to forward. To hell with
> security for the time being, I just want to get the private network
> passing packets to the public network and vice versa.
>
>

Listen - you're making this far more complicated than it really is.

Don't worry about routing - let the little linux elves take care of that for
you...

Install the distro...
Configure networking (assign the IP's & hostname)...
Configure your IPTABLES rules...

Then it will do *exactly* what you want it to do.  That's really all there
is to it (as if that isn't a gross oversimplification)... seriously.  Don't
get too worked up about the routing.

If things don't work you need to go back & check:

Your IPTABLES rules...
Your physical setup...
Routing...

Yes, with some tweaking Linux can act as a router with little or no
security.  I don't think that's what you want to do here.  Go ahead & setup
your firewall.  It will work.

Good luck.