Hi
I just moved out of a shared student house in which we had a Linux machine
(SuSe) acting as a server for internet access and printing. It was set up by a
computer science student and worked really well.
When I moved into my new place I ended up with the server. I decided to
hook it up and use it as before so that I could share printers and the modem
between my girlfriend's PC and my Mac.
However, now I find that when I initiate an internet connection (PPP, using
wvdial over a phone line) I get an IP number off my ISP but I can't ping any
machines outside the LAN, nor will the server forward requests from the local
machines to the outside world.
Nothing has changed on the server - what could be wrong? I assume it's
something to do with routing, as when I shut the server down I get a
message saying that shutting down routing has failed (although the error
massage scrolls past too quickly to read - is there a log kept somewhere?).
As you can probably tell I'm very new to Linux and not very technical, so
please use short words (I use a Mac remember!).
Many thanks
matt crocker
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