> ping isn't that reliable swiss knife tool as many treat it for. Even the > Windows(r) "personal firewall" (!sic) can be interfering when running in > what some people call (attention: buzzword) "stealth mode". Often dead > minded and a shoot in the own feet to silently drop all ICMP packets. good to know... > I could imagine you are missing the correct default route. What does > "route -n" tell you? route -n returns (eth0-> connected to a LAN client; eth1-> connected to the adsl modem (ppp0)): Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 200.217.50.131 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 0.0.0.0 200.217.50.131 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0 > You shouldn't have set a GATEWAY neither in > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth[0,1] nor in > /etc/sysconfig/network. But /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 > should contain a "DEFROUTE=yes" entry. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 has a defined route; /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth[0,1] and /etc/sysconfig/network don't. > Before testing the gateway functionality make sure the Fedora gateway > itself can reach outside hosts, i.e. using "telnet www.google.com 80". > If not possible, then you might have a DNS misconfiguration, using the > wrong DNS servers. Check then /etc/resolv.conf. The internet connection from the gateway itself works perfectly; in fact, that's where I am answer your message... > On the LAN clients make sure the DNS are set too correctly, either > pointing to your ISP's DNS servers or your own if running a caching > nameserver. Another problem can be the size of MTU and MSS, but this is > more a problem with specific net targets and the size information should > be given by your ISP if they differ much from usual (MTU 1492 for ppp > device and MSS of 1452/1436). the LAN client is set to use the gateway's IP as primary DNS server, and another external, reliable server as secondary... -- Thiago dos Santos Guzella Electrical Enginnering Student - UFMG (www.ufmg.br), Brazil Linux User #354160 UIN: 13465286. Jabber: tguzella @ jabber.org "Faith: not wanting to know what is true." Friedrich Nietzsche
