Homemade gateway help

[fmctm1sw]

I am tring to make a home-made gateway. I have two network cards in an old PC. I used a program called FreeSCO to set up. Whatever I do, I cannot get my "internet" computer to access the internet through the gateway. I can ping from the gateway to my "internet PC" and my "internet PC" to the gateway. If I do a traceroute from my "internet PC" to an internet address, I get as far as the gateway and thats it. What do I need to do to make my "internet PC" get through the gateway?

[808smokey]

What OS are you using? What the h e double hockey sticks is FreeSCO If you have XP is relatively easy. 98 is a little more difficult but not impossible. Do you have any firewalls?

[fmctm1sw]

First, http://www.freesco.org/?L=Overview is a free router OS. I think it is a stripped version of Debian Linux. You can fit it on a single 3.5" floppy. I do not have a firewall. I have win98 (that I plan on changing to win2k) on this computer and nothing loaded on the gateway PC. This computer I am typing on has no CD burner. So, if I want anything I have to download, copy to my USB flash drive (64MB), take to my "video" computer (no connection to internet) and burn. This is also why I just don't download linux from somewhere and burn a bootable CD. So I continue to look for something small. I've been shown Devil Linux too. I actually got this computer (win98) to ping the gateway computer and was able to ping back. The trouble is, I cannot reach the internet through the gateway. Someone told me to look at the routing table. This is something I do not remember setting up. So, that looks like this weekends project. also, my friend is supposed to be d/l'ing andburning Mandrake 9.2 for me.... Thanks for the look....