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cvxmck@mailbox.uq.edu.au wrote:
> 
> I'm configuring my linux box as a web server/router for our Netware
> lan.
> I've finally got ppp connected (and what's more, I even understand
> some of it!)  but the only way I can talk to the world is to manually
> "route add default gw x.x.x.x dev ppp0".  It doesn't happen even
> though I've got the defaultroute line in my pppd script (as per the
> HOWTOs).
> Also, I can ping and nslookup the world once I'm connected, but I
> can't access past the linux box with Netscape running on a Windows
> box.  Netscape just times out.
> Here's a mud map.
> 
> ---------------internet----------------
>      |
>      |
>    ISP
>      |  (ppp dialup)
>      |
>   Linux Box
>      |
>  ----------------Netware 4.1 Lan-------- DOS/Win ---
> 
> I can access my own www page running on Linux box, but won't access
> past the linux box.  But I can ping and nslookup from linux to the
> internet.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Network Administrator
> Clairvaux MacKillop College
> Brisbane, QLD, AUSTRALIA
> cvxmck@mailbox.uq.edu.au

I had a similar problem - found I needed to recompile the kernel 
(Slackware 1.2.13) to enable an option called 'IP Forwarding', which
I gather allows the kernel to forward IP packets between different
interfaces.

You may have already done this, but if not its almost certainly the
source of your problem.

Hope this helps.

Greg Nangle.
gregn@doghouse.apana.org.au