Re: routing between different subnets on same if.

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[e-mail]>,
 <[e-mail]> wrote:
>On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Paul Jakma wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 [e-mail] wrote:
>> 
>> > Hi Paul,
>> >
>> > I just think you might look for aliasing on your linux box.
>> 
>> i have the aliasing, the aliased machine can ping IP's on both
>> subnets. The machine is supposed to be a router though and clients on
>> both subnets are setup to use it as their default router.. but it
>> doesn't route... it notices that both IP's are on the same link and so
>> just sends ICMP redirects. which doesn't help. :(
>> 
>> i need linux to completely route between 2 IP's even though they are
>> on the same link.

Did you enable forwarding with echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ?

>did you install routed on the linux machine ?

Routed is a daemon which speaks RIP to other routers. That isn't
needed at all in this case.

Mike.