The equivalent bit's only there cos I forgot to delete it don't worry about it, on Red Hat 9 they'll be an actual file

in
/etc/sysconfig/
directory called
network

o ok. when I copy and paste the 'iptables -A FORWARD -s ! 192.168.0.0/24 - DROP' part it say
# iptables -A FORWARD -s ! 192.168.0.0/24 - DROP
Bad argument `-'
Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.

oops, here's me talking about typing errors too

it should be

iptables -A FORWARD -s ! 192.168.0.0/24 -j DROP

ok. Done that should it work now?

If you've done all the restarts and stuff it should

you should at least be able to ping an external address from the windows machines as long as their gateway is correct......but I've got the feeling you're going to disagree ya?

hehehehehe unfortunatly your right it dont work

some 1 told me that i can use a distrobution of linux called SmoothWall which is a dedicated router and firewall distrobution if i can get a old computer and install that on it I can use that to share my internet connection but is there any way i can setup the server i'm using right now to send the files to that computer because im going to get 1 with out a cd drive so i cant use cds

very frustrating,more so for you. Neither way is getting a result.


Does your switch have an uplink port although you ping from XP to linux so it's quite an unnecessary question.

And you can access the Internet from linux

all I can think of is the usual network stuff

Network cards are working
checking IP's fall with in the same subnet and the gateway is valid
everyone can ping everyone
DNS servers

Maybe best to roll back to the stage Mathieu left you at hopefully he or someone will be able to pick up on what's going wrong.

yep every thing is correct and working except the interent on the other computers. I think i'll use the smoothwall thing if i can ask my dads work to give me 1 of there old computers they dont need. But thatnks for your help and time.

If that's the route you're heading down, on a machine withthout CDROM you can do a network install via ftp or http, haven't done it myself but at least you know it can be done,

hope you have better luck

ok thanks again

I have a gateway with 2 NIC's running Fedora 1 with a simple configuration following the instruction i this thread in regards to iptables and ip_forward. Everything works fine except that windows clients are only able to ping local adresses. However, they can go www, mail and so forth but no ping. Also the windows clients have to request a local hostname fx. the gateway's web-server before being able to request the world. What is wrong?