[plug] IPV4 some advice

[Colin Muller]

Mark Saxon wrote:
> Kernel IP routing table
> 202.61.192.14   0.0.0.0       255.255.255.255   UH  0 0  0       ppp0
> 192.168.246.0   0.0.0.0       255.255.255.0     U   0 0  0       vmnet1
> 127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0       255.0.0.0             0 0  0       lo
> 0.0.0.0         202.61.192.14 0.0.0.0           UG  0 0  0       ppp0

Looks to me like you don't have a route to your local machines - it's
set up to go through the vmware. I don't know whether that can work, but
I doubt it. Can you ping/traceroute each machine (server included) from
the others? If not, you need to delete the 192.168.246.0 route, and add
a  gateway route to 192.168.246.0 through whatever the IP number of your
server's network card is.

Incidentally, just in case: your line
ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.246.2/255.255.255.0 -j MASQ

will allow masquerading from the .2 machine only. If you want to allow
all of the machines on the subnet to use masquerading, you'll need to
change the .2 to a .0

Colin