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[quadraphonic]

I'm very new to the Linux world and I run Mandrake-Linux 9.1 that I just downloaded. My problem is, I cannot share my Internet Connection to my other computer running Windows Me.

I set up the network like I did before when I was using Mandrake-Linux 7.2, but this time I seem to get a gateway problem.

From Windows, I can resolve the DSN of any domain on the internet, however I cannot send packages beyond the Linux machine. I'm assuming that the issue is with the Linux gateway, but I don't know how to set it up right.

Anyone know what I may have done wrong? I did choose 'share internet connection'

 

[quadraphonic]

Hehehe, I take it back.... I tried again using DrakGw, and this time it worked. It even set up my Linux Computer as a DHCP Server.... And now everything is juuuust fine...

 

[Tappe]

I had a problem like this one when setting up Mandrake 9.1 as a firewall/router. I had 2 nic and a static IP on an adsl line, but first Mandrake didn't recognise one of my nics. Then after that, the internet sharing wizard in KDE did nothing but start the dhcp conf files setup for me. I still had to edit the dhcpd.conf and iptables (something wrong with NAT) to get the service to start correctly. I then did the same box over with RH9 after Mandrake made me angry a few more times, and it took a fraction of the time. RH not only seems to have much better hardware compatibility but in my opnion much better GUI conf tools, after all, if I wanted to set everying thing up in command line, I wouldn't have wasted the HDD space to install them.