IRIX and Software

Setting up a gateway

squeen
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Wrote the following at June 5, 2007, 4:26 a.m...

Does anyone remember the steps to set up a dual interface IRIX box as a gateway for other systems?
Something about routed...

Thanks.

regan_russell
From Sydney, Australia
Who joined July 18, 2006, 9:32 p.m.

Wrote the following at June 5, 2007, 4:44 a.m...

man route
man netstat
man ifconfig

From memory...

route add network 10.10.0.0 gateway 192.168.0.10

Regan

J5600, 2 x SUN, 2 x Mac, 3 x Alpha, 2 x RS/6000

squeen
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Wrote the following at June 5, 2007, 5:45 a.m...

awesome thanks!

josehill
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Wrote the following at June 5, 2007, 6:34 a.m...

"gated" has some more flexible capabilities than "routed," but either is fine.

If you want persistent static routes, put them in /etc/config/static-route.options for 6.2+.

squeen
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Wrote the following at June 14, 2007, 4:44 a.m...

Ack.

I've got the Tzero with 2 Gig-E card working on both networks, but I can't get it to route packets from machines on the private net. I found my notes and followed the same procedure as I did on my Octane many years ago to get it work, but no dice!

My is /etc/config/routed.options

-h -Prdisc_interval=45 -q

The /etc/config/netif.options has (there are three interfaces actually, but I'm just using tg0 and tg1)

if1name=tg0
if1addr=$HOSTNAME
if2name=tg1
if2addr=gate-$HOSTNAME
if3name=tg2
if3addr=gate2-$HOSTNAME

I've chkconfiged gated on and rebuilt the kernel with /etc/autoconfig -vf.

I even get from netstat -s -p ip |grep forward

86 packets forwarded (forwarding enabled)
0 packets not forwardable

But the machines behind the firewall just sit and spin. The ugly part is I configured a Linux box as the gateway previously and all the firewalled machines could get web access OK (but were slow). I figured--based on my experiences with the Octane--that the Tzero would make a much better gateway.

Help!

josehill
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Wrote the following at June 14, 2007, 10:47 a.m...

What does the output of netstat -rn look like on the Tezro and on one of the machines that can't get to the public net?

squeen
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Wrote the following at June 15, 2007, 1:44 p.m...

From the Tzero with the IP address modified to protect the innocent

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netstat -rn


Routing tables




Internet:


Destination      Gateway            Netmask    Flags    Refs     Use  Interface


default          999.999.112.1                 UGS         4      298  tg0


127.0.0.1        127.0.0.1                     UH         42        7  lo0


999.999.112      link#4             0xffffff00 UC          0        0  tg0


999.999.112.141  127.0.0.1                     UGHS       10        1  lo0


192.168.10       link#2             0xffffff00 UC          0        0  tg1


224              link#4             0xf0000000 UCS         0        0  tg0


255.255.255.255  1X8.123.112.255               UGHS        0        0  tg0

From the Linux box behind the Tzero

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Kernel IP routing table


Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface


192.168.10.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth0


169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U         0 0          0 eth0


0.0.0.0         192.168.10.1    0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 eth0

networking has never been one of my strengths, so your help is greatly appreciated

foetz
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Wrote the following at June 15, 2007, 7:25 p.m...

did you delete it or does the linux box lack the lo0 entry?

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Kernel IP routing table


Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface


127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U         0 0          0 lo

r-a-c.de

regan_russell
From Sydney, Australia
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Wrote the following at June 16, 2007, 7:24 a.m...

One more thing:
man traceroute

Regan
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J5600, 2 x SUN, 2 x Mac, 3 x Alpha, 2 x RS/6000

squeen
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Wrote the following at July 16, 2007, 6:34 a.m...

Ack! I really need to resolve this one. Help me in my ignorance. I'll beg!

Here's the instructions in IRIX Admin: Networking and Mail Chapter 3

Configuring a Router With Two Interfaces

The /etc/init.d/network script is designed to automatically detect and configure a router with two interfaces if the default naming scheme for the interfaces is used. By default, the Internet addresses of the primary and secondary interfaces are derived from the /etc/sys_id file. The primary interface uses the name in the sys_id file. The secondary interface prefixes gate- to the name specified in the sys_id file.

To set up a router with two interfaces using the default naming scheme, follow this procedure:

1. Log in as root.

2. Assign valid Internet names and addresses to both interfaces in the /etc/hosts file. For example, the /etc/hosts file entries for the primary and secondary interfaces on the station biway might look like this:

198.70.75.2 biway.salad.com biway
198.70.80.3 gate-biway.salad.com gate-biway

3. Ensure that the router has the appropriate name in its /etc/sys_id file. Following this example, the /etc/sys_id file should look like this:

biway

4. Reconfigure the kernel and reboot the station to initialize your changes and interfaces. Some systems prompt you for permission, as in the following example. Others simply return a shell prompt. In either case, enter the reboot command when the kernel has been reconfigured:

/etc/autoconfig

Automatically reconfigure the operating system? (y/n)y

reboot

Which I did. My /etc/hosts looks like

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999.999.112.141 heimdall


192.168.10.1    gate-heimdall

The contents of /etc/config/netif.options are

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f1name=tg0


if1addr=$HOSTNAME




if2name=tg1


if2addr=gate-$HOSTNAME

I also have a static-route set up in /etc/config/static-route.options

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$ROUTE $QUIET add -net default 999.999.112.1

Right now the Tezro see both networks and can ping, SSH, HTML etc. just fine. I have

routed on
gated off

and told the network (through the System Manager GUI) to forward IP packets .

From the private network (Linux and OS X boxes) I can ssh into heimdall (the gateway) just fine. They are set up to use a default route of 192.168.10.1 (again, the Tezro gateway).

If I traceroute from the Tezro (gateway) to our Onyx server (eno) in another building I get:

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traceroute 999.999.228.160


traceroute to 999.999.228.160 (999.999.228.160), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets


1  vlan112-rtr-b28 (999.999.112.1)  1 ms  1 ms  1 ms


2  vlan900-rtr-b5 (999.999.58.181)  0 ms  0 ms  0 ms


3  eno (999.999.228.160)  0 ms  0 ms  0 ms

however, from the linux box behind the gateway I get

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traceroute 999.999.228.160


traceroute to 999.999.228.160 (999.999.228.160), 30 hops max, 46 byte packets


1  heimdall (192.168.10.1)  0.406 ms  0.302 ms  0.298 ms


2  999.999.112.1 (999.999.112.1)  1.151 ms  0.992 ms  0.986 ms


3  * * *


4  * * *


5  * * *

so I goes through the gateway to the gateway's default route and then stops.

I had a Linux box gateway working using the commands

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/sbin/iptables --table nat --append POSTROUTING --out-interface eth0 -j MASQUERADE


/sbin/iptables --append FORWARD --in-interface eth1 -j ACCEPT


/sbin/route add  -net 192.168.10.0  netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 999.999.112.141 dev eth1

Help!

squeen
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Wrote the following at July 16, 2007, 6:50 a.m...

@foetz: No the didn't remove the localhost entry, but the netstat output is exactly as I reported.

Also, I tried

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route add  -net 192.168.10.0 -gateway 999.999.112.141

but all I get is

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add net 192.168.10.0: File exists

squeen
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Wrote the following at July 16, 2007, 2:18 p.m...

I put 999's in the example above to protect the innocent. I probably should have put xxx's instead.

Sorry for the confusion.

squeen
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Wrote the following at July 17, 2007, 12:13 p.m...

anotheradamdickson has suggested that I use IPFilter . Tech pubs describes how to use it

http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi ... index.html

and I remember when Iit was on the "Cool Software" site for download--but I thought it was put on the system discs. I just checked the 6.5.30 discs and can't find it. It has command line apps things like ipf and ipfstat . Does anyone know where it lives these days?

BTW I'm not talking about the older ipfilterd that lives in eoe.sw.ipgate .

Thanks.

nekonoko
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Wrote the following at July 17, 2007, 12:48 p.m...

I think the "Cool Software" section is gone, and the IPFilter on there was never put on the IRIX system discs. I stuck it here (it's open source anyway; shouldn't be a problem to distribute):

ftp://ftp.nekochan.net/pub/irix/General ... 27.tardist

squeen
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Wrote the following at July 17, 2007, 1:04 p.m...

Neko,
you...
this site...
the community...

words fail