Routing Problem

[國產 Wei-Yee Chan]

Have U tried asking Fred?  He's using Suse, so he might know.

DC Parris wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> My primary box, running SUSE Linux 10.0 is doubling as my router.  I can get 
> my laptop running SUSE 10.0 to connect to the Internet through this primary 
> box.  However, I have not been able to successfully connect to the Internet 
> from an Ubuntu 5.10 box on my LAN.  Running a single distro environment is 
> not feasible for my situation, but at least there are no Windows boxes.  
> Anyway, here's my basic info.
>
> The primary box has two NICs, one connects to Roadrunner via DHCP, and the 
> internal NIC provides DHCP service to the internal LAN.  The Ubuntu box is 
> getting it's IP address from the SUSE box just fine.  It even lists the SUSE 
> box as its name server.  Yet, it doesn't see the external NIC.
>
> When I ping the external NIC, I get a "network unreachable" message.  When I 
> first installed Ubuntu, I had no need to share the connection, and did not 
> configure a default route.  I believe that is where the problem lies, but am 
> not sure what to do about it.  Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Don