On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 04:44:53PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > > Here's the problem: I don't *want* to do masq'ing. The ethernet card/network > subsystem is not picking up that it's supposed to forward packets from the > cable modem (that's what it is) to the computers on my home network. > > The firewall's address: 24.15.16.190 > My workstation's address: 24.15.16.179 > The gateway after the cablemodem: 24.15.16.1 > > Note that I don't have a whole subnet, just a few addresses. > > But I think it's a more low-level problem than ipchains. The logs show > nothing about return packets, and I only see them with iptraf in promiscuous > mode. I really think it's something to do with the ethernet setup. > > But what?
Forwarding implies routing. This isn't routing, it's bridging. You need to enable bridging in the kernel and set it up (I've never done that in Linux so until I read the docs, I can't help you there). HTH, -- Nathan Norman "Eschew Obfuscation" Network Engineer GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7 http://home.midco.net/~nnorman/ Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147 416C E0BF AB73 8BEF F0C8 255C 51F9 8BB7
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