hi everyone

can anyone help me???

i need to set up a PC with Linux Mandrake 9.0 as a router, i have two network cards in it, one as 10.1.0.9 and the other one as 10.2.0.1

what do i need to set up to make this router works???
what IP addresses should i use in the others PCS connected to the router??
or what am i doing is wrong???

greetz
mono

You need ip_forwarding enabled and you need the routing tables on _all_ the machines set correctly.

I assume all the machines have 255.255.0.0 netmasks.
You need the routing table on all the 10.1.x.x machines set so the default route to 10.2.x.x is via your router. The 10.2.x.x machines need a default route to 10.1.x.x via you router.

What is the best way to set a route automatically on lots of machines?

ok mate, thanks
but where can i edit the routing table???
and where i enable ip_forwarding???

>where i enable ip_forwarding???

I don't use mandrake so I don't know, there is probably a box to
tick in the graphical system administration program.

You can do it with the command
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

but obviously you need that to happen in the startup scripts somewhere
so it is set when the machine reboots.


>where can i edit the routing table???
I assume the other machines are windows so you use the route
command in a dos box.

If you are unfortunate enough to still have win95 machines then you may have to use a batchfile or somthing to set the route because win95 dosn't support persistant routes.

If the machines are given an ip by a DHCP server you may be able to get the server to give the machines the necessary route.

ohh.. please anyone?
help me with Madrake, i don`t know where to find tha files that i need to edit!!

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