I'm having trouble setting up a home network to share one internet connection. I have two laptops both with ethernet cards and both with wireless cards. One laptop is connected to a wireless access point and I am trying to use that machine as a router to share the internet connection with the second laptop (via wireless). First, is this possible? I ask because I've had no success. I have followed the basic instructions on these two pages: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/16579.html and http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/16022.html Machine 1 Running Suse 10.1 updated regularly. Isp access via a wireless network. Machine 1 has access to the network via eth0 linked via an ethernet cable to a wireless access point. The isp assigns fixed ip 192.168.xxx.202. The access point is not hooked up to a wireless router. The isp gateway is 192.168.xxx.254. eth1 is the wireless card which I have given the fixed ip 192.168.2.1 I have internet access without problems on this machine eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:D3:04:7E:AA inet addr:192.168.xxx.202 Bcast:192.168.xxx.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::216:d3ff:fe04:7eaa/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:10245 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6164 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2408404 (2.2 Mb) TX bytes:818320 (799.1 Kb) eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:02:6D:0D:20 inet addr:192.168.2.1 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::213:2ff:fe6d:d20/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:75 errors:1 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2108 (2.0 Kb) TX bytes:1094 (1.0 Kb) Interrupt:185 Base address:0xc000 Memory:d4000000-d4000fff machine 1:~ # /sbin/route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 192.168.xxx.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 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.xxx.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 Machine 2 - running suse 10.0 online update regularly. I can ping machine 1 but I get not ping the default gateway nor other sites. The result I get is that the network is unreachableI have enabled ip forwarding and ip masquerading on machine 1. I have tried turning off the firewalls, wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:4B:F9:A4:AF inet addr:192.168.2.2 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::290:4bff:fef9:a4af/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:19 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1724 (1.6 Kb) TX bytes:2734 (2.6 Kb) Memory:b0104000-b0105fff machine 2:~ # /sbin/route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo presario:~ # wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:4B:F9:A4:AF inet addr:192.168.2.2 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::290:4bff:fef9:a4af/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:19 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1724 (1.6 Kb) TX bytes:2734 (2.6 Kb) Memory:b0104000-b0105fff Any pointers would be much appreciated. Gustav -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org