routes are killing me - how to?

[Bil]

er. if you don't have a default route on the linux box. you get no internet
access. period.

unless of course you've configured DHCP.

bil
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Carty" <admin@thinktankdecoy.com>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 4:18 AM
Subject: RE: routes are killing me - how to?


>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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.
>
>
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