> You've combined your responses to two postings from different people.
>

Is that bad? if so, I won't do it again, sorry.

> Also, the 'linux.redhat.misc' is actually a disused mirror group of one
> of the old Red Hat mailing lists, and not all news servers see that group.
>

Thanks for the pointer. :-)
 
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>
> Sorry about that - fumble fingers
> 
> 
> [...] 
>
> Where's the ppp0 interface?
>

This is from the old (working) 'server':

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:24:50:1F:C5
inet addr:192.168.10.220  Bcast:192.168.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
RX packets:1009 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:71728 (70.0 Kb)  TX bytes:3072 (3.0 Kb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xfc80

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:560 (560.0 b)  TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)
 
>

tcpdump just tells me I'm connected by ssh, can I filter stuff out?

> Try that.
> 
>
> OK
>
> I'm not the firewall rules expert, but I think that looks OK.
>
>         Old guy>

Thanks again for the help.
Steven

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