Michael C. Toren on Sun, 18 Jun 2000 17:12:18 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [PLUG] 3com NICs


> > So eth0 has a gateway of .19 (the router), and eth1 has a gateway of .2? And
> > you want to forward from eth1 to eth0?
> 
> Umm... during the intial install, I was only asked for the gateway on one
> interface (which was the eth0 one).  From everything I've read thus far,
> in order to get packets forwarded from the network on eth1 to eth0, all I
> need to do is enable IPV4 forwarding (which I have).  The only gateway
> that needs to be know, I believe, is the one to go outside the two LANs,
> which I've already specified.

Yes, you only need one default gateway.  Routes are a system-wide thing,
not an interface or device dependent thing.

-mct