After reading your problem, as an experiment, I tried using a Red Hat 8
machine on LAN to connect to the internet through a Win XP machine that was
Pacenet is not a traditional LAN based ISP. It uses pppoe.
--
"The intrepid Spaceman Spiff is stranded on a distant planet!
..our hero ruefully acknowledges that this happens fairly
frequently.." --- Calvin and Hobbes