What does all the IDE stuff have to do with iptables? Try this. http://securityportal.com/articles/netfilter20010219.html Cory -----Original Message----- From: webillo@mi.madritel.es [mailto:webillo@mi.madritel.es] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 5:55 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] IPTABLES in 2.4.2-> no idea HELP! Hi. I had two disks in IDE1, and DVD and CDROM in IDE2. I've added a CDRW and Atapi Zip, so I have used IDE4 on old SoundBlaster. Final configuration is two disks in IDE1, DVD+CDRW in IDE2 and CDROM+ZIP in IDE4, all of which work perfectly in W98SE and W2000. I use Suse 7.0 with 2.2.16. Atapi Zip needs CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY in kernel. I changed this, but although at boot all six IDE devices are recognized, a lot of error messages appear related to the devices in IDE4 ("unexpected interrupt", "ATAPI reset", "irq timeout"). I upgraded to modutils and kernel 2.4.2, and these problems disappeared. But the PC has two network cards, to a cable modem (DHCP) and to a laptop (192.168.0.4). Laptop IP is 192.168.0.7. I used 'ipchains' on 2.2.16 before for giving Internet access to the laptop, but it seems that a new philosophy with "iptables" is recommended with 2.4.2. I have tried a little bit with 'iptables' but cold not make it work, so I stay by now with old 'ipchains'. Can someone provide a simple set of 'iptables' commands to give Internet access to the laptop through the PC connected to the cable modem? TIA, Webillo Disperso. -- 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/faq