Okay guys, thanks for the response, it's been a while so I guess I forgot that this IS a place for details. Allow me then to start over.
Alright... got the floppy-based Dachstein, did a fresh diskette, stuck it into my 486/DX2, 16MB RAM, with two identical RTL8019 NICs. Now I've used the same hardware before as a gateway on a different network and it worked. This time around I'm trying it at home. I have one of the primewave wireless boxes, that come down into a RJ45 box that I plug the External interface of the box into and get DHCP address 192.168.1.x from 192.168.1.111 DHCP server. The problem is that this is the same subnet being given out on the internal side of the box. I figured that this would cause a problem and started tinkering to change the internal interface subnet to 172.16.0.x/24. I still couldnt ping anything from an internal client machine, however this time whenever I ping a domain name (Eg. www.yahoo.com) it resolves, but after resolving still couldnt ping the IP address resolved. I've tried rebooting of client machine and clearing the history and temp files and pinging domains not previously pinged just to make sure that it was in fact actively resolving domains. I looked at the IPCHAINS chains and there are a whole bunch of rules loaded in there... as a test I tried going thru the filter file with the rules and changing the deault policy from DENY to ACCEPT for input, forward, output.... I tried adding the internal subnet... as a matter of fact everything to the hosts.allow file (ALL : ALL). I even manually from the command line tried flushing all chains and setting the policies to ACCEPT. I was also wondering of all the Filter settings (none|router|firewall) which would be a safer bet to get this thing to work? I hope I did better on the description this time, if anyone has any insight or suggestions, I'd love to hear 'em thanks. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
