NAT nightmare

Robert Hayes rhayes at silcom.com
Wed Jul 3 07:37:51 PDT 2002


Is there any possibility that the XP machines are running XP Home and not 
business? Wasn't there something about Home being crippled for just this kind 
of application?

On Tuesday 02 July 2002 05:05 pm, you wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a Linux-based router for a friend.  I have a box
> with Red Hat 7.3 and 2 NIC's (one for the LAN and one for a cable
> modem), and I've ensured that the kernel (version 2.4.18-5) supports
> all of the router options (except ipfwadm), but I can't make it work!
> I have managed to make the router work as a DHCP server for the LAN,
> and I can access the Internet from the router using lynx (that's what
> I'm doing now to send this e-mail).  However, no matter what I try
> with the firewall rules, I can't seem to make it forward anything!
> All of the computers on the LAN can talk to each other, but they give
> me a "Cannot find server" error when they try to access the Internet
> (that's all they say; all these computers except the router are
> running WinXP).
>
> Does anyone know how I should be doing this?
>
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