So, what problems did you have, and what did you do? Being new to the list, I went through the archive for December and this month, but only saw one message from you regarding MASQ, and no replies. I've set up an internal LAN, which will ultimately consist of six machines, most running WIN95. I have SuSE 5.3 on one box, which I want to use with ip masquerading. For security, I also want to set up firewalling. Cable service is from Mediaone. They put the card in a WIN95/OS2 dual boot machine. I plan to transfer the card permanently to the Linux box, set up ip masq & firewall, and set all the other computers up to access the internet through the Linux box. Standard stuff. Since I have impatient users here who like to spend a lot of time web surfing, I only get to do developmental work on weekends. Last weekend, I had the two NICs in the Linux box, and was able to get onto the Internet. But from a WIN95 machine in another room, I can ping both of the NICs in the Linux box (that is, 198.168.10.1, and 24.128.xxx.xx, whatever Mediaone has assigned to their NIC. But that's as far as I get. I have the DNS in WIN95 set up so that the gateway is given as 198.168.10.1, and I had DNS on, with the DNS's for my Mediaone node listed (24.128.60.7, 24.128.60.8, and one other). I'm not at home right now, so I can't look up detailed info on any of the *.conf files or anything. I do have FW_START=on, and FW_DEV=eth0 (which is the LAN-side NIC). The firewall network is identified as 198.168.10.0/24. Any help would be appreciated, although I can understand if there isn't enough information in this message at this point to suggest any possible fixes. I just wanted to get rolling with this. Another weekend is coming up, and I know I'm right on the verge of a breakthrough. I've read the minii-HOWTOs, and as an aside, I have to say that not even the ETHERNET HOWTO was helpful in getting SuSE to recognize Mediaone's 3Com NIC (a 3C509-letter something). I figured out accidentally that the only setting I needed to provide was the IRQ. Nothing in any of the documents provided that information. Zulfiqar Naushad wrote:

Ladies and Gentlemen!! I would like to say that I have finally solved all of my Masq problems. As I speak, my other computer is currently downloading several files using the cable modem on my comp!! :-)

I am extremely happy with the performance of Linux Masq vs SyGATE. Most Impressive!!

Once again, thank you all for your helps!!

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