Ok well I have somewhat popular setup with my slackware 10 machine. I have 2 ethernet cards in PCI slots. One connects me to the outgoing world (eth0) through my cable modem and the other connects to a hub (eth1) which has a WAP (linksys) connected at 192.168.0.38 with a few wireless clients with 192.168.0.98 etc... So I'm able to ping my linux system from my clients and vice versa. I'm able to ping the outside world (which I'm using to read this). I read the article listed below in attempting to route traffic from my local to the WAN and have failed thus far. I have iptables set exactly to what that article has listed and yet I still get no forwarding. Anyone know what might be the problem? Any input is better then none ;-)

Sorry forgot link. Ya sad but oh well.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ticle&artid=23

To provide NAT functions:

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE

Is that what you typed?

Yes I have added that rule. I packet sniffed a request from one of the clients and it attempts to ping the IP I give it but gets no response. When I packet sniff on the router (linux box) I see that it sees the request but there never is a reply packet of any sort.

I finally got it to work. I had the rule in iptables but for some reason it didn't work when using all the other rules supplied in that article. Slight mishap with my firewall settings I guess. I'm putting the rule in my rc.local file so that it always loads the way it should. I also had to slightly modify it to -I because for some reason the chain didn't exist and I couldn't just append it. So I would recommand trying it with -I for anyone who is having similar issues.