Linux networking help
Last week I posted that Mandrake 9 was easy to get working as a router. Well, I change my story :O/ My linux box sits between my cable modem and a hub that spiders to the rest of the house. I had a whole lot of trouble getting both interfaces up and running, but now my internal ip is static and functioning, and my external interface is getting an ip from NTLs DHCP server.
This is something along the lines of 10.x.x.x - what usually follows is you open up a web browser, point it anywhere at the internet, and you get routed to NTLs authentication page. Once your computer is authenticated you restart, get a proper 80.x ip and you're ready to roll.
Except that it's not happening. I can't even ping my gateway, let alone use a web browser. Figuring that it may be a firewall issue, I shutdown shorewall, and now I can't ssh to or ping the linux box from my Windows client (although it can successfully ping the other way), and attempting to ping the gateway produces something along the lines of:
"Ping failed:sendmsg not allowed"
Basically, I have nfi, I'm out of my depth and out of ideas. I'm on a computer at Uni atm, which means ifconfig/netstat info is a bit tricky to paste :O/ Mandrakes auto-configuration utility made a bloody mess of it, to be frank, and I'm not ruling out the possibility of something it ****ed up getting in the way of this.
Anyone able to help?
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