system os fedora 9
history: I had this computer running as my firewall in
Seattle (10 yrs ago). do to prolonged sickness moved and rebuild my interest in linux in the passed 3 months. In Seattle eth0 was DHCP'ed from ISP's DSL (Verizon). Eth1 home network side. My current ISP wants to run PPP. I have PPP up and running. It only works if iptables is disabled. I went back through my rules and replaced all refernces of eth0 with ppp0. Now iptables will not load. Question do I need remove eth0 so it does not show up in ifconfig output or do I need to rap my head how to load iptables? OR BOTH.

Hello and Welcome to LinuxQuestions,

The following might come in handy:
Iptables and PPPoE
Iptables Mini howto
Linux firewalls using iptables

Looking forward to your participation in the forums. Have fun with Linux.

Kind regards,

Eric

Many Thanks. From the doc's you gave me I was able to config eth0 and ppp0e and are now and up and running. I am well on my way to updating and adding to iptables filtering. Many thanks again.

Hi,

You're welcome! Thanks for marking the thread as solved. Have fun with Linux.

Kind regards,

Eric