[Shorewall-users] connecting 2 local networks

Jason Maas
Fri, 12 Sep 2003 07:54:54 -0000

Hi Kenneth,

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Kenneth Oncinian wrote:

>This is the same with shorewall enabled and with the manual command
>ip_route.

I''m not sure what you mean by "the manual command ip_route".
As I said
before, you don''t need Shorewall at all for what you want to do (so
this
discussion doesn''t really belong on this mailing list), so make sure
that
it''s completely disabled and you''re not doing any firewalling.
Make sure
that IP forwarding is turned on.

>Im sure gateway address for 192.168.2.0/24 computers are correct which are
>set to 192.168.2.1 but still they cannot ping or connect to 192.168.1.0/24
>network.
>
>What am i missing here? kernel is 2.4.20

Are the machines in the 192.168.2.0/24 network using IP addresses from
that subnet?  Are their subnet mask set to 192.168.2.255?  Are their
routing tables properly configured?

Can the router ping anything in the 192.168.2.0/24 network?

Are you doing the testing by host name or IP address?  Use IP addresses to
take DNS out of the picture.

If you still can''t get it to work, then sniffing the wire with ethereal
or
tcpdump might shed some light on the problem.

Jason