[ale] home networking difficulties

[Andrew Grimmke]

Hi folks,

For those who have been following along in my saga of
networking heartache, I have news.

I can ping!  Yes, You heard me right.  I CAN PING!

I went looking for different drivers for my NIC.  One
of them did the trick. 

Thats the good news.  The bad news is that IP
forwarding/masquerading does not seem to be working.

I have added networking and IP forwarding to
etc/sysconfig/network file.

NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME='shakedown'
FORWARD_IPV4=yes

I added ip forwarding to the etc/sysctl.conf file

# Controls IP packet forwarding
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
net.ipv4.ip_always_defrag = 1

# Controls source route verification
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1

I added ip masquerading to /etc/rc.d/rc.local

# 1) Flush the rule tables.
  /sbin/ipchains -F input
  /sbin/ipchains -F forward
  /sbin/ipchains -F output
# 2) Set the MASQ timings and allow packets in for DHCP
configuration.
  /sbin/ipchains -M -S 7200 10 60
  /sbin/ipchains -A input -j ACCEPT -i eth0 -s 0/0 68
-d 0/0 67 -p udp
# 3) Deny all forwarding packets except those from
local network.
#    Masquerage those.
  /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY
  /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j MASQ
# 4) Load forwarding modules for special services.
  /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp
  /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio

did I do something wrong?  Is there anything I missed?

Thanks,
Andrew

Andrew Grimmke
Marietta, Georgia

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