🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi.

I just read both posts and I think that what has been said is not entirely
accurate.  I do not think that you need to have IP forwarding compiled into
your kernel if all you want is for the IP packets from you work station to 
get to the internet.
In other words:
If you want to be able to pine a machine on the internet from a novell (or
other) workstation, and an Linux box is your gateway to the internet through
either SLIP, PPP or direct ethernet (or any other method), it is not necessary
for the Linux box to have IP forwarding compiled into the kernel.
I at the moment am running 1.2.5 on a Linux box that is the gateway to the 
internet and I am telnetting and pinging from a windows based machine that
is running winsocks. (direct ethernet between windows and linux)

Can you ping the gateway from your linux box? 
If you can get out while you are logged into the Linux box then you should
be able to get out from anywhere on the network that is connected to the linux
box.  If the machines on the network have their own IP addresses.

If the machine on the novell network does NOT have its own internet IP address
you can forget pinging (or doing anything) from it directly, you will have to
log into the linux box and do it from there.

I hope this helps.  Please mail me directly or post here again if anything is
not clear or if you have other questions or if I did not cover anything....
or if you want to flame me.

Mike Knott
The ServInt Corporation