thanks for replying

I am running RH8.0 on the firewall/gateway machine. I have two computers on the network one RH8 and the other win2K
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The internet connection(cable modem) is going into eth1. eth0 is then going to a linksys workgroup switch. The two internal computers are also connected to the switch. I dont think it is a problem with the equipment because i can communicate with all computers on the internal network. By communicate i mean every computer can pinged and I can ssh into the internal computers on the 192.168.1.x network. If the equipment was bad this would not be possible. Also if I connect the cable modem directly to a computer and receive an Ip address via DHCP it works just fine. This leads me to think that something is wrong with my setup.

I knowNot-- how do I make sure that my interfaces are loaded as modules and not in the kernel
This is all of course on ethernet no usb or anything else you mentioned

iptables -L and iptables -L --line-numbers are attached in the file iptables-L.txt

im pretty sure the error is in here somewhere but i dont know where

I appreciate your help

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