This is a question about my other RH6.2 machine that I am setting up for IPmasquerading. This machine is set up with three NICs. Here is the rundown: 3c509b (eth1) - Internal network netgear fa310tx (tulip/eth0) - external network d-link (ne compat./eth3) - external network testing IPchains policies set to ACCEPT, no other rules hosts.allow and hosts.deny have no entries Scenario: Ifconfig shows all three devices installed. Pinging the internal network works dandy (3c509b). Pinging the external network receives one response, then drops all following packets for both the d-link and the netgear NICs. The d-link was used as an external NIC on another machine for a while and was added to this one for testing purposes since the netgear kept failing. I use a Win98 machine through the same hub and router pair with no problems. I have already tried updating the drivers for the d-link and netgear NICs. Currently, I am thinking that the problem lies in one of two places: 1) there is a problem with the system setup that is ignoring/blocking the incoming icmp packets (ipchains, but I turned it off), or 2) my connection is through a broadband modem that uses DHCP to establish my lease (I have a static IP, it is just assigned through DHCP protocol). Problem 1: I turned off IPchains and cleared out hosts.allow and .deny, so there should be no reason to block any incoming traffic. Watching the hub lights indicates that there is traffic incoming, just not being received by my linux box. Note that the situation is the same for a distant host and for pinging the IP of my broadband modem. Internal network (192.168.x.x) pinging works fine. Problem 2: I was thinking that DHCP leasing might be the problem and that the broadband modem just would't recognize my box since I manually assigned the IP, mask, gateway and DNS. I know the information is correct because they are the same as the values I scavanged from my Win box when I used it with DHCP. However, I have since manually set my IP information on the Win box and it works just fine! I double-checked the information on both machines to make sure they matched. You'd think the Win box would have the same problems. So... I'm thoroughly confused. Does anybody have any ideas as to what the problem is or how to fix it? Thanks, Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===== -------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list