On 7/11/05, Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... > You now show eth1 as IP 192.168.0.0 network and 192.168.1.0 network on > eth0. Thus the NICs are on different subnets and it works as designed. ... ok, things are very exciting :) I'm going with the diagram at <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Masquerading-Simple-HOWTO/intro.html>, except that the external IP should be dynamic for my setup because that's how the ISP has things arranged. arrakis eth0 built-in DHCP arrakis eth1 D-Link 192.168.0.1 caladan eth 3-Com 192.168.0.2 so, right now I'm basically just reading up on this :) [root@arrakis init.d]# ./network restart Shutting down interface eth0: [ OK ] Shutting down interface eth1: [ OK ] Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ] Disabling IPv4 packet forwarding: [ OK ] Setting network parameters: [ OK ] Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ] Bringing up interface eth0: [ OK ] Bringing up interface eth1: [ OK ] [root@arrakis init.d]# route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 default 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 [root@arrakis init.d]# ping 192.168.0.2 PING 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=1.04 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=0.476 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=0.479 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=0.477 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=4 ttl=128 time=0.481 ms --- 192.168.0.2 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4000ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.476/0.591/1.044/0.227 ms, pipe 2 [root@arrakis init.d]# ping www.google.com PING www.l.google.com (66.102.7.104) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 66.102.7.104: icmp_seq=0 ttl=244 time=60.2 ms 64 bytes from 66.102.7.104: icmp_seq=1 ttl=244 time=66.2 ms 64 bytes from 66.102.7.104: icmp_seq=2 ttl=244 time=56.5 ms 64 bytes from 66.102.7.104: icmp_seq=3 ttl=244 time=84.0 ms --- www.l.google.com ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3003ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 56.573/66.759/84.015/10.538 ms, pipe 2 [root@arrakis init.d]# thanks for the help, Thufir