[plug] LAN access to the 'net.

[Russ Pitman]

My gateway machine logs in via ippp0 and works fine,but I cannot get out
to the outside world from the workstation.

The gateway runs debian woody.
ifconfig returns

ippp0     Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:203.11.114.185  P-t-P:203.11.114.5  Mask:255.255.255.0
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
RX packets:7451 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7466 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
 collisions:0 txqueuelen:30
RX bytes:8002028 (7.6 MiB)  TX bytes:607162 (592.9 KiB)
                                                            
route -n returns

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
203.11.114.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 ippp0
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         U     0      0        0 ippp0

/etc/network/interfaces contains

# (network, broadcast and gateway are optional)
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
	address 192.168.1.1
	#       netmask 255.255.255.248 # I tried both these #
                netmask 255.255.255.0
                network 192.168.1.0
                broadcast 192.168.1.255
                                                                                             
The workstation runs debian sid

ifconfig confirms that eth0 is up

route -n returns

Destination   Gateway      Genmask		Flags	Metric Ref Use  Iface
192.168.1.0   0.0.0.0      255.255.255.0	U	0	0   0   eth0
0.0.0.0	      192.168.1.1  0.0.0.0		UG	0	0   0   eth0		

/etc/network/interfaces contains

# (network, broadcast and gateway are optional)
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        address 192.168.1.1
#       netmask 255.255.255.248 # I tried both these #
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        network 192.168.1.0
        broadcast 192.168.1.255
        gateway	 192.168.1.1
#	gateway  203.11.114.0  # This errored as expected #


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

has been run on both boxes, tho it is also run as part of the boot scripts

I can ping any local address and the ippp0 gateway 203.11.114.0 but none
other.

I know that a similiar problem was discussed some time ago on the list
but was unable to find the thread.

Would someone point me to the thread or better still tell me what I am 
missing.

TIA,                                                           
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