[expert] Connection sharing in mdk9 issue

[J. Grant]

Hi List,

I setup connection sharing in the mdk control centre.  However my ppp
conection (via kppp) now does not work.  I can connect but all programs
give either "Connection refused" or DNS errors. /etc/resolve.conf has
the correct IP addresses in it.  And so does my laptop which I also
tested with.  I set kppp options to use ppp as default route too.
The mdk control centre wizzard seemed to set it all up ok, I found it
had changed my IP, with the new IP or after I changed it back to the
origional it was not working from other of my 2 computers.
mdk seems to use shorewall for this sharing, i've checked
/etc/shorewall/  but nothing seems obviously incorrect.
Any ideas anyone?  I expect it is working ok for other ppl, so must be
something simple
Regards

JG

route:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
62.252.226.217  *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp0
192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
default         62.252.226.217  0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 ppp0
ifconfig:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:96:02:5D:18
          inet addr:192.168.1.8  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:990357 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1454952 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:93662763 (89.3 Mb)  TX bytes:1972554055 (1881.1 Mb)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd000
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:2166 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2166 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:107559 (105.0 Kb)  TX bytes:107559 (105.0 Kb)
ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
          inet addr:62.252.241.64  P-t-P:62.252.226.217
Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
          RX bytes:135 (135.0 b)  TX bytes:166 (166.0 b)





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