Hi there!

I have two dells each running suse 9.3. Dell-1 has an NIC plus ethernet on the motherboard. I'm trying to make it act as a gateway/router for Dell-2.
I configured eth0 statically as 192.168.1.3 and it goes to a Linksys router (192.168.1.1). I have a crossover cable from eth1 to Dell-2.

After reading some posts here, I statically set eth1 as 192.168.0.1 and Dell-2 is 192.168.0.2 with its gateway is 192.168.0.1. Both NICs on Dell-1 have IP forwarding enabled in YAST.

At this point the two machines can talk to each other, and Dell-1 sees the internet fine (thru the linksys router). But Dell-2 cannot ping the Linksys router, or any other address.

Initially I had Dell-1's eth0 as 192.168.1.3 and eth1 as 192.168.1.4, and Dell-2 was set to 192.168.1.5, but this did not work at all. Any ideas how to set this up so Dell-2 accesses the internet thru Dell-1?

Craig

Look at the Network Address Translation section (and probably the firewalling section) of the Netwark Administrator's Guide at http://www.tldp.org

Feel free to post back with any questions.

I probably should have just said RTFM, but I'm being very tolerant. In the future read the documentation before posting questions. The website referenced above is a great resource. Also remember that "Google is your friend."