Chris Abiad wrote:

> In my house, we've got a cable modem (from @Home) coming into a Win98
> machine (I know...) running Sygate that's doing the network address
> translation (IP Masquerading/routing/proxying/whatever) for us.  This
> machine has two NICs.  One goes out to @Home, the other comes in to a hub.
> Each of us (6 ppl total) has a computer that we attach (well, logically if
> not directly..we have two hubs hooked together through the uplink port).
> 
> Linux output from "route" command (run as root):
> routing table
> Dest               Gw                GenMask            Metric
> Iface
> 192.168.0.0        *                 255.255.255.0      0
> eth0
> 127.0.0.0          *                 255.0.0.0          0
> lo

One thing I notice - if this is the gateway machine it has no default
route set up.  Without this, nothing will ever go out on to the
net.   As root do:

route add default eth0

or whichever eth is the cable modem internet interface.

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Regards,

Ron. [AU] - sent by Mandrake Linux.

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