Nat Gateway ??? help

[psykosen]

hey guys

I have a small problem I am about to put a new lan network together in my company! it is intended that the Internet connection goes into my (DHCP, PXE, File and print) server! These works perfect but I can not get internet to work! I have tried forwarding (eth0 => eth1) with iptables and it will not work(for me)

this is what I have tried!!

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

then

To delete existing rules from every iptables table, execute the following commands:

iptables -F
iptables -t nat -F
iptables -t mangle -F

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth1 -j ACCEPT

and then i type "iptables -L" i get this output

gate1:~# iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

should it not show that it forwarded from eth0 => eth1
i'm not a guro in iptables so eny help is welcome
i'm totaly lost there

I have searched online for some days now and can not really find a solutions that works have tried this howto but without result
searched howtoforge for iptables, forwarding etc..
but nothing seem to work(mabe its me )

looked over my log files even trail -f whill the client boots up but now errors there

Regards
Psykosen

oh! i'm running Debian lenny with DHCP, PXE, File and Print server
and it works perfect nothing there

[dipeshmehta]

try uncommenting following line in /etc/sysctl.conf

net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

hope this works.

Dipesh

[psykosen]

no it did not work but thanks any way
it's for the first time I put such a system up so bear with me, only used linux for about 7 months

other proposals would be nice thanx again

[fayax]

Try this and post the output.

iptables -L -t nat

[psykosen]

hi this is the output off iptables -L -t nat

Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target              prot opt source                 destination        

Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target              prot opt source                 destination  
MASQUERADE          all -- anywhere                  anywhere

Chian OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target             prot opt source                 destination

to me it's looks okay i meen it ACCEPTS all the way around????