On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 03:54:02PM -0400, Fred Williams wrote: > 1. Could the firewall be blocking the service?...SE Linux is active. yes. SE Linux is not the firewall. iptables (netfilter) is the firewall. > 2. Do I have to set netmasks and so on, because my system fails to > obtain IP information for eth0. When using PPPoE the ethernet device (eth0) does not need an ip address. A ppp device (typically ppp0) will get an ip address and be the machines "external" interface. -- sg