another small problem with networking

[Keith Antoine]

At 11:46 PM 4/01/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 14:16:22 +1000 Keith Antoine <kantoine at bigpond.net.au>
>wrote:
>
>
>All connections into the hub should be straight through cables, including the
>server. The only exception is that if you stack hubs, some of them won't 
>have an
>expansion port and you'll need a cross over cable. The cable connection 
>from the
>server to the inet would depend on how you're getting your inet feed. If it's
>over a cable via a cable modem, some use a cross over cable, some use
>straight... it depends on what your provider gave you. Your server has two
>nic's, one for internet connection, the other feeding into a hub/switch box,
>then you should run a firewall script the enables masquerading. That 
>locking up
>you mentioned, Did you modify a firewall script for your setup? It could 
>be you
>entered a host name incorrectly and iptables/ipchains is waiting to timeout
>before it moves on to the next line in your firewall script.
>
>For instance, if I re-run my firewall script when my ISP's smtp server is
>off-line, the script will hang there until it times out and then continues 
>on as
>normal.

Maybe I got it wrong but we do not have a hub. We have 3 nics one for the 
inet cable hookup
one for the ME machine one for the XP. So I have one cable that does not 
work and the others do.
I am guessing that they are crossover cables.

Keith Antoine aka skippy