Ive located it down to iptables - if I bypass the rules for that internal
host it works fine.  I notice that the firewall script (monmotha's) is not 
logging, but otherwise appears to work.  As its static, and the fault is
coincident on pppd comeing up I dont know what the cause is ... this script
worked fine on the mandrake system I pulled it off of ...

And its only because I accidentally trashed some partitions on that system
(fiddling with overclocking!) and decided to rebuild that system in a hurry
with gentoo whilst using a partially built older box as a firewall/inet
interface whilst the rebuild goes on that I got into this mess.
Thanks  for the help
billk
> On Tuesday 02 July 2002 1:06 pm, Leon Brooks wrote:
> 
> > Network card not on same IRQ as serial port?
> >
> I second this motion :)
> 
> 

