Patrick Kirk wrote: > [snip]
> > Help please. Why am I unable to give internet access to my machines on the > LAN? Hi Patrick, I too am playing with getting my home network up and running. I seem to be done for the most part. Question, do you have your gateway box set up as a gateway box? My setup is like this: I have two PCs, one of with is connected via a cable modem, so I have two NICs in the gateway and one in the ordinary host. On my gateway machine, my /etc/init.d/network file has two sets of values (one for each NIC). I'm assuming that you're able to connect to the world on your gateway machine. My file looks like so: #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 # IPADDR0=#.#.#.# NETMASK0=255.255.255.0 NETWORK0=#.#.#.# BROADCAST0=#.#.#.255 GATEWAY0=#.#.#.1 # IPADDR1=192.168.1.100 NETMASK1=255.255.255.0 NETWORK1=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST1=192.168.1.255 # ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR0} netmask ${NETMASK0} broadcast ${BROADCAST0} route add -net ${NETWORK0} [ "${GATEWAY0}" ] && route add default gw ${GATEWAY0} metric 1 # ifconfig eth1 ${IPADDR1} netmask ${NETMASK1} broadcast ${BROADCAST1} route add -net ${NETWORK1} netmask ${NETMASK1} dev eth1 On the ordinary host (I'm taking a shot in the dark here cuz, it's running windows at this time), your /etc/init.d/network should be similar, only with one nic. You also need to make sure you have the ifconfig and route commands executed like in the first incantation (the one with the default gateway). I hope I'm not leaving anything out, but if you contine to have problems, feel free to contact me publicly or privately (public is preferred, so this gets into the archive, and that others can spot my screw-ups) hth -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ http://www.debian.org