Just a thought, but is eth1 your outgoing device? The rule itself looks fine. Victor On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Austin Morgan wrote:

Hello, I have finally conviced my boss that it would be a good idea to have a linux box in the office as a firewall/gateway. Now our web/e-mail hosting people have just informed us that they are going out of business and I have 3 days to get the machine running. For the moment until I have time to set up the proxy's I am going to use IPMasq. I have done this many times before but for some reason I can not get any request to the internet to work. When I run IPTraf and using my NT workstation machine to ping or telnet it shows packets going out both the internal network card and the one pointing to the world, but I can't seem to get a connection. Does anyone have any ideas about this. At the moment I am on a test network using simply ipchains -A -forward -i eth1 -j MASQ. Any help would be apreciated. Thank you, Austin

P.S. I only have this set up like this because I couldn't get it to work at all. After I have it set up and work I will go back and fix the MASSIVE wholes I have left laying around.

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Austin Morgan wrote:

I have finally conviced my boss that it would be a good idea to have a linux box in the office as a firewall/gateway. Now our web/e-mail hosting people have just informed us that they are going out of business and I have 3 days to get the machine running. For the moment until I have time to set up the proxy's I am going to use IPMasq. I have done this many times before but for some reason I can not get any request to the internet to work. When I run IPTraf and using my NT workstation machine to ping or telnet it shows packets going out both the internal network card and the one pointing to the world, but I can't seem to get a connection. Does anyone have any ideas about this. At the moment I am on a test network using simply ipchains -A -forward -i eth1 -j MASQ.

How about going right back to the bare essentials, by dropping the '-i eth1' as well and see if that helps at all. Have you enabled IP forwarding (check /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward)?

P.S. I only have this set up like this because I couldn't get it to work at all. After I have it set up and work I will go back and fix the MASSIVE wholes I have left laying around.

Indeed, that would be sensible. Do we have any more info available that could help solve the problem? Bye, Chris -- Sorry everybody - all the servers at the ISP I use for email have been down for the past four days. They've come back up again, so now I have to catch up on all that mail... __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/