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check first to see if the V4R5 and remote host can ping back and forth.
Make sure the remote host knows how to route to V4R5 box, also.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Urbanek, Marty" <Marty_Urbanek@stercomm.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 1:08 PM
Subject: Bassackwards IP Forwarding?


> I have a V5R1 machine that makes a PPP connection to a remote host. I can
> FTP to that remote host from the V5R1 machine, no problem.
>
> I have an V4R5 machine that can't do PPP due to no suitable hardware. The
> two machines are connected via token-ring for both TCP/IP and SNA.
>
> I would like to FTP from the V4R5 machine to the remote host via the V5R1
> machine, using V5R1 as a gateway.
>
> I have turned on IP Datagram forwarding in the TCP attributes of the V5R1
> machine. I have defined a route on the V4R5 machine, specifying the full
> address of the remote host, subnet mask of 255.255.255.255, and next hop
as
> the IP address of the V5R1 machine.
>
> I did not IPL or cycle TCP/IP after changing the IP Datagram forwarding
from
> *NO to *YES on V5R1 machine.
>
> It does not work (V4R5 FTP client just sits there - I assume it would
> eventually time out).
>
> Can this be done & any ideas what I am doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> -Marty





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