OK so it's not such a trauma now, after great help from Neill and "Fozzy" - my routing still doesn't work but at least I'm now in a position to provide more intelligent information than my last post.
OK here's a summary, LAN with 3 machines 1 x Win2k 10.10.10.100 1 x win98 10.10.10.99 1 x Mandrake 7.1 10.10.10.200 (called it route66 optimistically) netmask for all of these is 255.255.255.0
10.10.10.200 connects via external modem (ttyS1) to internet (ppp0)
route gives me this......
Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface ba3-cvx3.cablei * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 route66 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0 10.10.10.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default ba3-cvx3.cablei 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0
now, if I understand this right the first 3 lines of this output should be doing the job so can anybody tell from this why I can't get to the outside world from 10.10.10.100 or 10.10.10.99 - network comms are fine as SMB, Telnet, FTP HTTP all work to the 10.10.10.200 box but not beyond it
hopefully :)
Dave david@davidhowe.co.uk