On 2001.01.28 15:37:06 -0600 Philip C Mendelsohn wrote: > What distro are you using this from? I have the Debian 2.2.17pre6 > (potato) and it does not need to be recompiled -- you can just load > the > modules. The Debian package ipmasq takes care of it all for you, > though > I'd be really careful about looking over the ipchains rules they > give you > and probably just write your own. That's helpful (fresh install of Debian 2.2.18pre21) . The documentation I've read suggests otherwise on the compile option, so we'll find out. Writing ipchains rules shouldn't be too hard (did it before). > I've been around the block about 600 times trying to get network > cards to > work. I've had it where it will show up under ifconfig, the routing > table > will be correct, but ping just stares back at me. That one turned > out to > be needing to set an IO recovery delay in the BIOS -- since yours > used to > work on that machine, I bet its not that hard. Well, maybe,... but it's more headslap dumb on my part - it works under the compact kernel, but not the one I compile. Well, I guess I'll just see how it goes again. > I do assume a known good modular kernel, and that you have a > compatible module. That's the crux of the matter, I don't have a module and I can't figure out how to get it created. -- Dave Kleist dkleist at acm.org "The covers of this book are too far apart." - Ambrose Bierce