I have, after considerable trouble, managed to get my Linux box (RH 6.1) to recognise 2 3Com 3c509 NICs. eth0 is setup to pick up a dynamic IP address from my cable ISP. eth1 is assigned a static internal IP address. When the network comes up, eth0 picks up an IP address in the 24.44.xxx.xxx range, which conforms to what my win2k box picks up. I can ping other machines on internal network, but I am not able to access machines on the internet. I used to be able to connect the linux box as a standalone machine to the cable ISP and surf the net. But when trying to use the box as a gateway, the internet side of the setup seems to fail, inspite of picking up a valid IP address from the ISP.

I do not use dhcpcd that comes with the RH distro, since I ran into trouble with it. Instead I downloaded ISC's dhclient. My /etc/hosts.deny file has the entry ALL: ALL and the /etc/hosts.allow has ALL: 127.0.0.1 and ALL: 192.169.1

ifconfig eth0 and ifconfig eth1 indicate that the cards are all setup properly.

Any help in trying to resolve the issue will be highly appreciated.

Rajan.

point it to the gateway

have you (do you need to?) configure ip masquarading over the two NIC's. I'd presume so, read teh erlevant howto, linuxdoc.org