Thanx Jerry , Philipp. will try yr suggestion and report back.
----- Original Message ---- From: Philipp Rusch - New Vision IT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Shorewall Users <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 7, 2008 11:13:41 AM Subject: Re: [Shorewall-users] uanble to setup two interface firewall / router Linux Advocate schrieb: > Dear shorewall users, > > i recently got an SDSL line which is working fine ( net surfing,etc) from a > single host ( mandriva 2008.1 , shorewal 4.0.9 )but now when i try to add > another nic and try to share with a few other machines, its not ok. > > The modem ip ( Billion SDSL Modem Router - BIPAC 8500) is 60.54.174.145 with > additional ip 60.54.174.146 > > A. Single NIC Scenario - eth0 - all ok > .................................................... > > when i setup eth0 as follows; > > ipaddress: 60.54.174.146 > netmask : 255.255.255.252 > gateway : 60.54.174.145 > > i can connect to the internet fine. all ok. > > > B. Two NIC Scenario - eth0 , eth1 - not ok > ........................................................... > > Now i use the shorewall two interface samples and i am lost bcos of my own > lack of understanding of; > > B.1 how to setup eth1 - i tried setting eth1 as follows; > > ipaddress: 192.168.10.1 > netmask: 255.255.255.0 > gateway : 60.54.174.146 > > when i try to start shorewall , i get ; > > ERROR: Unable to determine route through interface 'eth1' > > Googling has not produced a solution for me. > > > Help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance. > Regards, > MarcoPL > > Hello Marco, drop the gateway setting on your internal interface (eth1), you don't need it at all. Your system knows where to route to from the settings of eth0. Your default gateway has to be the SDSL router. Not a mandriva expert, but be sure to enable routing on your machine. HTH, Philipp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
