On Tuesday 11 September 2001 06:27, Paul Rech wrote: > Shawn Fertch wrote: > > Problem: I have a home LAN comprised of various OS machines (Slack 8, > > Free BSD 4.2, Solaris 8, Win9x, Win2k), with the gateway machine having > > Slack 8 and an external 56k modem as my connection to the internet. The > > gateway machine has all of the connection information in there correctly, > > and I added the following lines to the end of my rc.local file for the > > internal machines to get outside: > > I'm not a network guy, so be warned. > I've been running a similar LAN for a long time with no problems. > But I have the ipchains script on the gateway machine only. Not on any > internal machines. > > /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY > /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.0/24 -j MASQ > > Then I dial up with ppp on that gateway machine, like any other ppp > connection. <Snip> > > Sounds like you have a PPP connection problem also, that is separate from > the LAN configuration. > Can't help you there. > > Paul Rech Thanks Paul. One thing, the gateway is the only machine that I have the ipchains rules and PPP on. I'm trying to get that one to connect first, then worry about the internal LAN connection. Rereading what I wrote, it sounds confusing but only the connection information is on the gateway. I'm not certain though that it's a PPP issue. I think it's a network protocol issue and I'm not sure where or how to figure out how to get past it. Shawn