I'm almost there, thanks to various people's help. The last problem I have has the symptoms of a routing problem, but ifconfig and route say differently. Here are the outputs. any clues?
# route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.0.69 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 localnet * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 10 eth0 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 6 eth1 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 5 lo default net2-cust119.co 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 25 eth0 # ifconfig inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:5925 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:5650 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:1 Interrupt:11 Base address:0x1400 ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:207.141.63.120 P-t-P:192.168.0.69 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 Memory:2f4b038-2f4bc04 # ping 192.168.0.69 PING 192.168.0.69 (192.168.0.69): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Operation not permitted ping: wrote 192.168.0.69 64 chars, ret=-1 ping: sendto: Operation not permitted ping: wrote 192.168.0.69 64 chars, ret=-1 ping: sendto: Operation not permitted ping: wrote 192.168.0.69 64 chars, ret=-1 ping: sendto: Operation not permitted ping: wrote 192.168.0.69 64 chars, ret=-1 --- 192.168.0.69 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss