Greetings, I'm rebuilding a machine to function as a gateway/router to Verizon DSL. It has two NICs eth0 and eth1 (static set to 192.168.1.1). eth0 connects to the DSL modem. I've setup Verizon DSL usine pppoe-setup, and it works. I can connect from home machines to the server (192.168.1.1); while logged in to the server, I can connect to both the internet, and the home machines. But ... I can't connect from the home machines directly to the Internet. I have set net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 in /etc/sysctl.conf I haven't setup the firewall yet (dangerous, I know) until I get the connectivity working. I'm obviously overlooking some other configuration settings required for machines inside the network being able to connect through the gateway/router. Thanks for any advice in advance. Max Pyziur pyz at brama.com