Ok let me ask this. Going through maybe 50 different howto's, 4 books and countless serchers on LQ and google I cant get for the sake of me a simple network up on my RHEL5 machine. So, can someone please explain step by step how to go about doing this or is there something wrong with my nic's?????

Cable Modem (98.148.144.1) // this is the first ip hit on tracert to google.com

eth0 (98.148.151.126) // this ip is pulled form the cable modem to my 1st nic in the server

eth1 (192.168.1.1) // static ip on the second nic in the server

DHCP is set up on eth1.
eth1 has a cat5 to a hub.
client pc has a cat5 to the hub.
client pc is dhcp and pulls an ip (192.168.1.11)
client pc can ping (192.168.1.1) but CAN NOT ping (98.148.151.126, 98.148.144.1, google.com or 74.125.19.103).

Now, can someone put together a simple /etc/sysconfig/network, /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and eth1. route add's and whatever is needed to get this crap running pls?

I have tried for days 24/7 to get this crappy client pinging to the internet through the Red Hat machine without success. Is Red Hat realy this worthless of an OS or is my nic bad? I had a friend who works with Solaris look at it and even he cant figure this out. Win NT server runs fine, clients hooked up and surf'd the inet.

/Thx in advance......

// Extremely pissed of Red Hat user

look at /etc/sysctl.conf for
if it is 0, RHEL won't forward (route).

To see the current value set for the running kernel
if it is not 1, set it to 1 with

and test connection from client to Internet again.


This is the most likely, but not only possible item preventing traffic from being routed. If the above looks good (or does not work after setting ip_forward = 1) then we'll need to look elsewhere... such as firewall settings.