Problem using 2 firewalls as in-line rather than failover

[prophet30]

Inbound from the internet:
No problems getting traffic to flow as expected using ACLs and statics.

Outbound to internet:
Works fine from any workstation outside of the inner firewall. The inner firewall can not ping my gateway to the internet and no workstations can get traffic of any kind past the inner firewall.

Is there something that I forgot to add to the inside or outside firewalls that allows them to work with others?

 

[baddos]

Your topology looks like this?

INET
|
1st PIX
|
2nd PIX
|
|------------| (Inside Network)

 

[haknwak]

do a trace from inside to the gateway - where does it stop?
also - is icmp permitted throughout? "If you lived here, you'd be home by now!"

George Carlin