Could you send me the output of route -n?Anyway thanks Ryan, I just wanted to confirm from you, whether we can have two NIC's in a m/c connected to a same network.
Your two network cards should not be in the same network, if they are, it is not a rotuer. The whole purpose of a router is a gateway for clients on a network to get to another network that they (clients) do not know how to reach.
Ryan
Output of route -n is :-
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.2 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
what I was expecting was:-
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.2 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
Regards -Raghu
Ryan Johnson wrote:
I am going to assume you want the most basic router, just two interfaces.Can I have both the network cards in the same n/w...? Becoz If I try to use both NIC's with the same n/w, running <$ route -n> we can see either eth1 or eth0 repeated twice. Pls let me know where is the problem..?
1.) Make sure both network cards have been detected. ifconfig eth0 ifconfig eth1
Regards -Raghu
_______________________________________________2.) Set up each interface on its own network, make sure the interface has been activated, you can use ifconfig for this. 3.) issue the command echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward to enable ip fowarding, w/o this the kernel will not send packets between interfaces 4.) set the clients behind the router to point to the internal ip of your router
Any changes made to the system will have to be initialized during the boot process.
Of course if you have ip addresses that you would like to nat/masq behind the router, you will have to use iptables.
You really should be more specific on your needs.
Good luck.
Good morning at all, thanks for previous help, but I have another ask. I have a few experience of Linux world's, and I need to configure a Linux PC as router, what are the steps? What do I do?
Thanks.
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