Re: [Sheflug] Re: Routing Problem

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

> > > /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j MASQ
> >
> > Ah....  that did it :))  Can now ping my ISP from my notebook.
> >
> > Now all I have to try to do is work out why I can't download web pages
> > or mail to my notebook :)
>
>
> Tried a few other things and it might be that I need something else
> that's similar ?  Can't see mail downloading and web pages don't want
> to dribble across the hub to my web notebook.  The notebook tells me
> that it's properly configured.

What else can you ping besides 'your isp'? Are you pinging by ip address?
Try pinging by name, i.e. 'ping www.demon.net' ought to work. If it doesn't,
but 'ping 194.159.254.213' *does* work, you have a dns problem..

Cheers,

Alex.

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