On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Martyn Wendon wrote:
> So far I've fitted 2 network cards in the Linux box, eth0 is 172.18.9.100
> and is connected to the router and eth1 is 172.18.9.101 and is connected to
> the hub of the internal network. I've enabled routing in linuxconf, and the
> default gateway is set at 172.18.9.30, at this point from this Linux box I
> assumed that I would be able to a:) ping the other machines on my network
> and b:) be able to ping the router / internet. But I can only ping the
> router and the internet, not the internal network. I also assumed
> (wrongly?) that I'd still be able to ping the router / internet from the
> rest of the machines. So now I'm a little stuck - too many years of plug
> and pray with Microsoft have taken their toll!
you need to put the two interfaces in different subnets.
