Goodàye
I am trying to get my redhat box to allow internet sharing with a win 98 machine. My connection is via satellite and that works fine from the linux box. The machines can ping each other both by IP address and name. Samba is up and working as is webmin.
Linux box 192.168.1.2
windows box 192.168.1.1
I`ve got the output suggested from a previous post:
[root@satellite /]# iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state
RELATED,ESTABLISHED

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
[root@satellite /]# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
10.0.0.3 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
ppp0
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
eth0
1.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0
sm200d
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0
lo
default 202.22.162.52 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
ppp0
default 10.0.0.3 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
ppp0
[root@satellite /]# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
1


Windows
ACTIVE ROUTES
Active Routes:

Network Address Netmask Gateway Address Interface Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.2 192.168.1.1 1
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.1 1
192.168.1.1 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
192.168.1.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.1
224.0.0.0 224.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.1 1
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 1

Any help greatly appreciated
Michael

this question has been asked like several hundred times. try doing a forum search for the following words:

router
ICS
linux/win98
sharing connection

or anything like that, you should find several helpful posts, even some with step by step instructions. if after your search you dont find what you are looking for, i'd be happy to tell you what to do to get it working.

hope i didnt come off sounding mean. im really a nice guy

Good`aye
No i definitly was not offended, I thought I had gone over the past posts but in rechecking found the answer to my problem
So thanks for your encouragment Michael