Incredibly stupid question:

How do I simply setup a linux box to route between 2 subnets?

All the tutorials I can find involve NAT or masaquerading and firewall rules to route between a public IP and an internal private subnet range.

But all I want to do is this:

Act as a router between 2 valid subnets:
eth0: 151.x.x.x (just an example)
eth1: 216.x.x.x (just an example)

Or act as a router between 2 different private subnets:
eth0: 10.x.x.x (just an example)
eth1: 192.x.x.x (just an example)

Can't I just set a routing table to do either of these with the route command?

Thanks.

Bret

To the best of my knowledge (which isn't too much) to set up routing on a linux box requires ip masquerading with the firewall.

Thanks for the reply, but I actually figured it out:

As long as you have two nics with ips in two different subnets then the only other thing you must do is turn on forwarding:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
(not permanent - use /etc/sysctl.conf to make this permanent)

Then as long as each system in subnet A has a gateway of nic A and each machine in subnet B has a gateway of nic B then you're all set!

Bret