[CentOS] Routing issue between 2 LANs

Jose Maria Terry Jimenez

jtj at tssystems.net
Sun Dec 19 17:07:30 UTC 2010


Hello All

First, sorry by my poor english, hope you understand me :-)

I have a problem, i don't understand or don't know how to solve

I need to interconnect 2 networks with different numbers. One is 192.168.236.0/24 the other 192.168.1.0/24. Mainly i need to access services in the 236. from the 1. one.

I have a CentOS 5.5 machine with 2 nics each one configured to work in one of the nets. The CentOS also uses a router for Internet access that is 192.168.1.1.

192.168.1.0/24 >-----192.168.1.100--[CentOS Machine]--192.168.236.74 --------< 192.168.236.0/24

So, i enable forwarding in the CentOS box 

echo '1' > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

And in one machine of the 1. network (this is Fedora14) I add the route:

route add -net 192.168.236.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.100 dev eth0

Since this moment i can ping or access (ssh/http) another CentOS machine in the 236 network
ping 192.168.236.74
PING 192.168.236.74 (192.168.236.74) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.236.74: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.281 ms

But can't access or ping other machines (NOT Linux ones), ie, printers, Win servers, etc...

Also tried adding: 
route add 192.168.1.100 eth0

before the route add -net, but no efect.

This fails even if i flush IPTables.

In the CentOS box that replies, i did nothing, it 'just' works.

Can anyone tell what is happening / help me with this?
Something to do missing in the CentOS router that joins the networks? 

Best,
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