From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sven Schuster Subject: Re: Linux Networking problem...please help.. Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:00:16 +0200 Sender: linux-net-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3F156880.8070109@gmx.de> References: <20030716122034.88944.qmail@web21001.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20030716122034.88944.qmail@web21001.mail.yahoo.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Sanjay Arora Cc: linux-net@vger.kernel.org, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Hello, maybe you could try to turn off send_redirects?? echo "0" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/send_redirects echo "0" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0/send_redirects Maybe you'll have to write eth0 instead of eth0, depending on the interface for the internal network. Hope this helps Sven Sanjay Arora wrote: >Netmask is 255.255.255.0 on all machines. > >Point is that the WinXP machine is being given a >redirect by the Linux firewall and that is being >ignored, either due to inability of WinXP or some >misconfiguration by me. > >Sanjay. > >--- Stephen Samuel wrote: > >>What are the netmasks for the two machines?? If you >>give them a /18 >>(or a /16) netmask and the associated broadcast >>addresses, then they'll >>know to just talk directly to each other. >> >>Of course, I barely trust Windows to understand >>netmasks, but it >>should be OK -- far better than trying to get it to >>accept ICMP >>redirects. >> >> >> > >