check to make sure it turns network packet forwarding on.
Robert Hyatt Computer and Information Sciences
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On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Claudiu Balciza wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm the administrator of a Digital server (2xPII 266/128M/2x4G SCSI, 3
> nics).
> It used to run Linux/Interbase for about one year. It did some DNS and
> routing too.
> It started with RedHat 5.0 and it has been upgraded to 5.1 and then, step by
> step to kernel 2.2.0.
> It used to work with RH5.1(some packages upgraded to 5.2) and kernel
> 2.2.0pre5.
> It used to work well.
>
> then
>
> I wanted to clean the RedHat5.1 and install 5.2 but with kernel 2.2.0-final
> (including the required upgrades) because I couldn't keep track of what
> version every package was. I sacrificed my weekend for that.
> It shouldn't have been difficult as only the kernel 2.2.0 required software
> was (imho) other than one or another RedHat distribution.
>
> I installed it.
> All worked well except routing.
> All routes were ok on the workstations and on the server.
> Yet nothing got routed.
> Not even ping packets.
>
> I reinstalled RH5.2 with kernel 2.0.36 but to no avail.
> No routing at all.
>
> I restored the old RH5.1 from backups and it works.
>
> So I wonder, what went wrong ?
> Please, send any suggestion.
> I hate not being able to understand what's going wrong.
>
> Claudiu
>
>
>
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