Unable to get out

[Andy Maslar <amaslar@home.com>]

Greetings,

I am using OpenBSD as a Nat, firewall box for my @home cable connection, 
and it works very well. My friend recently got cable service and wanted me 
to replicate my setup for him. I installed OBSD and configured the network 
settings for his account, but I can't get it to work. I have 2 NIC's, one 
configured with @home's public IP address and gateway, but when I plug it 
in and try to ping the gateway, I get "Host is down" errors. If I plug in 
his windows machine instead, I am able to ping the gateway successfully. 
Can anyone hazard a guess as to what might be wrong? Could it be possible 
for @home to detect that the machine is not windows, and thus reject it? 
@home will not support anything other than windows/mac.

Thanks. Please respond directly to me.

-Andy