problem solved (was Re: failing to share internet access between two PCs installed with Debian 3.1)

Hi everyone! The problem is solved. It turns out that I forgot to install the DNS server on my first computer and there is actually NOTHING wrong in the firewall settings of the entire network. First, I successfully pinged some IP addresses (151.189.21.100, which is www.arcor.online.net) from th

Re: failing to share internet access between two PCs installed with Debian 3.1

Dominik Margraf wrote: Thank you very much for your help and I would be grateful if you could find the culprit! Dominik Did we also do a `echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward'? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: failing to share internet access between two PCs installed with Debian 3.1

On 6/11/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 08:25:14PM +1200, Dominik Margraf wrote: > > > > I also installed ipmasq on computer A. Computer A was able to access > > the internet. Both Computer A and B could also ping each other > > successfully and compute

Re: failing to share internet access between two PCs installed with Debian 3.1

On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 08:25:14PM +1200, Dominik Margraf wrote: > > I also installed ipmasq on computer A. Computer A was able to access > the internet. Both Computer A and B could also ping each other > successfully and computer B was also able to share internet from > computer A > What is th

failing to share internet access between two PCs installed with Debian 3.1

I have two computers, both initially installed with Debian 3.1 (Sarge) RC3, The computer A has two ethernet ports and computer B has one ethernet port. eth0 of computer A is connected to the ADSL modem and eth1 of computer B is connected to eth0 of computer B via a crossover cable. For Computer A