[Westwales] Mandrake and drakgw modem sharing

[Adrian Shaw]

Does anyone have experience with modem sharing using drakgw?

I'm running Mandrake 9.1 to connect via a modem, and have my 2 home machines 
connected to each other with network cards.

I set it up, it works fine, all settings on the other computer (which is 
running either NT4, Win2K or Mandrake 9.1) correct. 

Then I go away, shut down my computer.

Then I come back again, and it doesn't work. I check drakgw. It says modem 
sharing is configured and enabled. It still doesn't work. So I reconfigure 
using drakgw, taking all the settings as they were before. And hey presto it 
works again!

So what's not getting saved properly? Or what's wrong? Is there some service I 
haven't started at boot time?

Adrian