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Re: 2 NIC's in linux

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stewart Allen)
Fri Aug 23 22:43:19 1996

Date: 	Fri, 23 Aug 1996 22:22:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stewart Allen <stewart@neuron.com>
To: "Andrew J. Saunders" <ajsaunders@[172.16.100.2]>
cc: Linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199608232131.RAA01193@WHQ.duriron.com>

On Fri, 23 Aug 1996, Andrew J. Saunders wrote:

> Now, from the Linux terminal, I can go anywhere I want, cruise the 
> internet, send mail, etc.  However, from my PC on network 
> 172.XX.XX.XX, I can ping the 172.XX.XX.XX card, and the 206.110.XX.XX 
> card, but I can't ping the router on 206.110.16.17, and therefore I 

 This might sound silly, but did you compile your kernel with forwarding
 enabled? Next, did you compile with firewalling support? It may deny
 forwarding by default.

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