> I have a box that I want to do IP forwarding. But, I can't ping outside > hosts through it. The firewall sends packets from me, but it doesn't > re-forward the ICMP echo replies (although you can see them with iptraf in > promiscuous mode) back.
just an idea to make it easier to spot the error: add ipchains rules, which do logging: ipchains -A {input|output|forward} -j ACCEPT -l look, what happens then. possibly your problem is a routing one. does pinging the hosts from the gateway work? -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Windows is the answer, I want the problems back!