one for the linux router experts

[Carl Yost]

other thing I would try would be take out the 0.0.0.0 and put in the exact IP for that port out on that route. I honestly never set up a linux box as a router and only work on Cisco :(




---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Darin Perusich <Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com>
Reply-To: nflug at nflug.org
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 19:06:56 +0000

>i've setup a network and i'm running problems with the router i've setup
>with LRP, here's what i have. 
>
>a logical representation of my companies network from internal, to DMZ,
>to our ISP. for routing i have 2 cisco routers, 1 lrp. on the internal
>network there's 1 dns server, 1 smtp server, and one client for checking
>email. on the DMZ network there's 1 dns server, 1 smtp gateway that
>routes all email to internal server, both these machine are in different
>network. on the ISP side i have a dns server, to test doing a zone
>transfer between the dmz dns server which is authoritative.
>
>from the internal network i'm able to ping out to the 164.109.1.2
>address, i think this is because 204.191.21.113 knows where that address
>is but not beyond that. from ns.isp.net i can't get past 204.191.21.113.
>this leads me to be believe that it has something to do with the routing
>table in the linux router. which is
>
>204.191.21.112	0.0.0.0 	255.255.255.250 	U	eth0
>163.109.1.0	0.0.0.0		255.255.255.0		U	eth1
>0.0.0.0		204.191.21.104	0.0.0.0			UG	eth0
>
>i've tried adding other static network routes but that hasn'e helped.
>i'm pretty sure thr problem lies in the linux router, but this is the
>first time i've played with one like this.
>
>i've include a picture, ip's and names have been changed to protect the
>innocent. 
>
>
>-- 
>Darin Perusich
>Unix Administrator
>Cognigen Corp.
>darinper at cognigencorp.com
>