Ben Collins wrote: > > > > > I did this by trial-and error, not with any insight. I believe the > > change involving the "hosts" or "networks" lines finally did the > > trick. > > > > I would hazard a guess that it is because your cable provider is using a > non-standard netmask/broadcast for whatever private network you are on. > Either that or you aren't specifying it in your network config, so it is > using the defaults.
Thanks for your reply. The router does perform NAT. My /etc/init.d/network now reads : #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 IPADDR=10.0.0.2 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=10.0.0.0 BROADCAST=10.0.0.255 GATEWAY=10.0.0.1 ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST} route add -net ${NETWORK} [ "${GATEWAY}" ] && route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1 Is there anything unusual here ? Cheers, Howard Mann.