Topic: Internet Access

[Rob Leahy]

I am just setting up an e-smith server to share and backup files and share internet access.

The system is as follows pent 166 132m mem 10G hard disc seagate dat backup and realtek based lan card.

We use a dial up connection for internet and have 2 external modems to choose from, one acer 56k the other a pragmatic.

All set up fine except a minor glitch with the dat drive, then found on the forum you had to do a manual backup first. So far so good!

We have 8 machines connected to the e-smith server using dynamic dhcp addressing and default gateway set to 192.168.1.1.

I cannot gewt the esmith to share internet correctly, it is very slow and then stops altogether. Whet ot stops I check the esmith server and it passes the internet communications test. i can ping from esmith and a client machine and vica versa!

Same result with both modems.

I have tried with esmiths proxy on and off. Any ideas, this is my last hurdle to getting the machine on the network!!!!!!!!