Raoul If you cannot get any satisfaction from the list then wait a week and try again. There are many talented and helpful people on the list but often not available to help all the time. I know this to be true. If you still cannot get any satisfaction from the list email me and we start from scratch and I will try my best to help you. Depending upon the size of the list there is always one or two people that think helping someone means putting them through the same hardships of learning that they encountered. This is a fairly common thing. It never occurs to them that we all build on the experience of others. There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is when someone knows something they are unwilling to share. This is strange behavior in the domain of Open and Free Software built by people who could support and collaborate with one another. Even the most brilliant and knowledgeable person has missing links of information. So don't let the insults take a toll on you. Don't give up. You have every right to ask any kind of SuSE related question especially if it relates to configuration issues. BTW. There are several ways you can go and some distributions (and I think SuSE 9.1 forward is one) do not allow the joint use of IP TABLES with IP CHAINS -- it has to be one or the other or conflicts develop -- when configuring the routing and firewalling of the network. But I would have to check this out to be sure. What you need is someone to give you copies of their appropriate config files and associated cmd line displays of network commands such as route, ifconfig, etc. It seems for some reason, the need for clear and relevant examples would be more commonplace but sadly not so. Every list has a few people that are so proud of their own achievements and technical skills that they find difficulty in really helping others attain to that achievement. Maybe they just get frustrated -- but that's no excuse to insult someone who is obviously trying. I don't know what they are really doing on a list such as this if they are not prepared to help everyone they can with what they have learned. If they cannot be respectful of others the least they can do is keep their mouthy attitudes to themselves. Thanks, TED Raoul Snyman wrote:
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Ken Schneider wrote: | HUH!!! | | If you use the Linksys router there is -NO- need to use pppoe on the | server or any other PC for that matter. It becomes the default route for | all of the other networked gear. PPPOE performed by the Linksys router. i WANT all the internet to go through the server for various reasons. one of them is that here in south africa we have a 2 gig cap on our line and i want to see how much bandwidth each person in the network is using, so that i can be forewarned about hitting our cap.
| It looks like you have very little networking experience and should | learn a few more basics first. thank you for that insult.
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