Router not routing

[James McDonald]

Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> This is not quite a linux question, but it is close.
>
> I have cable internet service to the house.  I use a linksys cable modem
> and a linksys wireless G router running sveasoft 1.1 talisman basic.  We
> had a power outage and the sveasoft router no longer picks up a WAN ip
> address.  No problem, I have a spare linksys WRT54GS v.5.  That one
> picks up the WAN address and assigns LAN DHCP addresses.  It even
> resolves DNS lookups.  It does not seem to route any other traffic
> between the LAN and WAN.  I can get on by attaching directly to the
> modem (obviously), but I can't get the router to work.  Anything I
> should be looking for?  Any ideas?  Both sides are working, but only DNS
> seems to get through.
>
>     -- Alma
>   

I had to reconfigure one of these the other day and found that "packet 
filtering" was on and it was blocking traffic.