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hi,
For the past 3 days I have been trying to configure a box to act as a gateway & firewall. I am using ipcop. I think I am almost there. ;)
I have the green card configured, so that other machines can access it (using a browser), and I have dhcp working so that other machines get ip addresses allocated by ipcop.
I know the connection between me and the isp is working, and the cable is also. I have a windows box that connects direct just fine. I can not get the red card of the ipcop machine to connect. Upon boot it hangs for ages, and when checking the card with ifconfig I find it is not being assigned an inet address. 

I have tried getting the address assigned to the win box, and changing the dhcp option in ipcop for the red card to static and using this address, with the NTL dns server, which I got from the win box also. No joy. eth1 now has an inet address, but I can not ping the dns server. It says destination is unreachable. Again, I can ping this server fine from the win box.

My isp is NTL. Has anyone got experience using ipcop with NTL? 

Thanks for any help any of you can offer.

regards,
damian.
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