I now have iptables up and running, the net connection is shared throughout the house again!
Between your hints, a couple of files sent my a friend, some issues with the bash shell, some pam.d issues, and the ip masq howto it is working just fine. Next few days will try to figure out how to tighten it up a bit more, for now will just pull the plug on the modem when not going to be using it. Alan >> OK. This additional info makes it pretty easy to advise you. (In contrast >> to your practice, my responses below follow each item, not precede prior >> discussion of it.) Epson Inkjet Printer FAQ: http://welcome.to/epson-inkjet - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs