On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 12:06:24PM -0800, CogSci-Klaus wrote: > Two problems: > > 1) Still struggling with my internet connection when I'm not root. As user, > wvdial compains about pemission denied for /dev/ttyS0. After every reboot the > change of permission is reversed again. How can I make it permanent?
Are you using devfs? Sounds like it... > 2) Regarding routing (ipchains forwarding) I don't really know what I'm doing > ... just know that it works when I issue the commands: > ipchains -P forward DENY > ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j MASQ Are you sure? Shouldn't it be ipchains -A forward -i ! ppp0 -j MASQ otherwise you'll be masq all connections comming from ppp0! > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > as root. To save and load at start time, look at ipchains-save ipchains-restore
