Timothy Bolz wrote:

> I've got one computer which is called Tesla which uses a modem to connect to 
> the internet. ?I have the other computer which is called Boyle which is 
> connected ?to Tesla with cat5 and a hub. ?I am able to SSH into each machine. 
> ?I am not able to use Mozilla to cruise the web from Boyle. ?I read about IP 
> chains and IP Masquerading and thought this would work. ?So I went. to 
> freshmeat and found a nice firewall soulution called defcon4. ?I thought this 
> would allow me to get Boyle connected to the internet. ?It hasn't and I don't 
> know why.


> And I thave this in /etc/network/interfaces
> 
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> iface eth0 inet static
> ???????? address 192.168.0.2 ? ?# for Tesla the same line is 192.168.0.1
> ???????? netmask 255.255.255.0

You need to add a gateway line.

iface eth0 inet static
        address 192.168.0.2
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 192.168.0.1

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Bob Miller                              K<bob>
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