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[mantel@xxxxxxx (Hubert Mantel)]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 01, Mike Payson wrote:

> Well, now that I resolved the speed problem, a new-- hopefully simple--
> problem has cropped up. This machine ahndles IP masquerading for our
> small network. We have two Windoze machines & this one connected to the
> net via DSL. I can get out to the net from here, and I can ping the
> other two machines. They can ping me. But, when they try to access the
> net, they don't succeed-- but the activity lights on the router do
> flicker, so apparently there signal IS reaching the router. 
> 
> I presume that I either changed a setting someplace while trying to fix
> the previous problem, or something is handled differently in 6.2, but
> everything looks right to me... Any suggestions are appreciated!

You want the machine to act as a router, so you have to set

IP_FORWARD=yes

in /etc/rc.config. In the past, this was the default, but is not correct,
as normal computers are not allowed to forward IP packets.

> Thanks!
> Mike
                                                                  -o)
    Hubert Mantel              Goodbye, dots...                   /\\
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