Private LAN accessing the Internet - Using route, how do I use it?
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Private LAN accessing the Internet - Using route, how do I use it?
Hi,
I have 2 Ethernet cards. 1 is public (215.254.188.140 with a gateway of 215.254.188.137) and a private card with (192.168.23.1). I want to route traffic from computers on the private LAN to the internet. How do I do this?
So I have a computer say 192.168.23.240 connected to the network. I can ping the server 192.168.23.1 but I can ping outside to the Internet. Can you provide steps on how I can achieve this?
Enter in "route" with no arguments to get a list of the routes. There should be one for each network ( 215.254.188.0 and 192.168.23.0 ) as well as the default route.
If the gateway device isn't a NAT router, then you need to configure masquerading and enable ip forwarding.
Your distro's gui configuration program may be able to set this up for you. It may be called internet sharing in the config.
You may need to also modprobe the tcp_conntrack module before ip forwarding will work.
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