Re: [Sheflug] RedHat doesn't want to route - help!!

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 20:40, Denis Nikitin wrote:
> When logged in to gate itself - everything is fine:
> all exernal sites are available as well as all internal
> worstations are ping-ed ok.
> Workstations (on internal network) can see the gate,
> but cannot see anything else. Kind of useless gate.
> Any help is very much appreciated, as I am stuck compeletely.

You can't route packets from a private subnet to the public internet;
packets get lost on the way back.

Look up masquerading; I don't know how RHEL does it but it should be
simple to setup. I would imagine there will be an admin tool to do it.

Cheers,

Alex.

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