Hi I just moved out of a shared student house in which we had a Linux machine (SuSe) acting as a server for internet access and printing. It was set up by a computer science student and worked really well. When I moved into my new place I ended up with the server. I decided to hook it up and use it as before so that I could share printers and the modem between my girlfriend's PC and my Mac. However, now I find that when I initiate an internet connection (PPP, using wvdial over a phone line) I get an IP number off my ISP but I can't ping any machines outside the LAN, nor will the server forward requests from the local machines to the outside world. Nothing has changed on the server - what could be wrong? I assume it's something to do with routing, as when I shut the server down I get a message saying that shutting down routing has failed (although the error massage scrolls past too quickly to read - is there a log kept somewhere?). As you can probably tell I'm very new to Linux and not very technical, so please use short words (I use a Mac remember!). Many thanks matt crocker - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
