Hello everyone,

And again i can't find the solution for a trivial task such as
setting up my gentoo box as a simple router for my home LAN.

Ok here's my situation:

I'm running rp-pppoe on a gentoo box that shall act as router.
Everything runs well, but the other boxes can't ping outside the LAN.

Somebody wrote in a forum that i need to execute the following
command:

echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

I did that, without success.

Here's my routing table (the router LAN IP is 192.168.88.101):

Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
217.5.98.87     *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp0
192.168.88.0    *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
loopback        localhost       255.0.0.0       UG    0      0        0 lo
default         217.5.98.87     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 ppp0

My other boxes are configured well and shouldn't require any changes. If i boot
the router with my SuSE system, everything works well. Each time i'm booting
the router with my gentoo system, only the router can reach the internet (ping).

Maybe it's a kernel config problem again. I surfed thru' countless online guides,
manuals, FAQs, without success. So, any ideas ?


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