i reboot my new system after a week or so of runtime. upon restarting the os, several things were amiss:
an entry in the routing table to the gateway was missing. i was able to route add the entry again. shouldn't this entry persist after a reboot? iptables rules did not persist as shown by iptables -L the table was empty and packets were not being forwarded from the 192.168.1. 1 eth1 interface to the 10.20.1.158 eth0 interface. iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -j MASQUERADE has not helped my situation. my default xwindow manager i thought was kde ... xdm is now coming up as the default and i cannot seem to prevent this from happening. these are several different problems but i am thinking there is one root cause that i am overlooking here. does anyone have guidance? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]