Gateway problem...

["Tun Yang" <tyang@chat.carleton.ca>]

Hi... I'm having problems with routing for a gateway...
I have a gateway machine that works with the win9x setup, and used to work
with debian... but it no longer works with debian for some reason..
Here's what I do: route add default gw tom
(tom is in hosts)
I also tried a: route add default gw tom metric 1
(which I found in /etc/init.d/network (or some init file))

After doing the route, I tried pinging yahoo..

# ping www.yahoo.com
ping: unknown host www.yahoo.com

I then got one of yahoo's ip addresses from the windows bootup and tried
this:

# ping 204.71.200.74
PING 204.71.200.74 (204.71.200.74): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Operation not permitted
ping: wrote 204.71.200.74 64 chars, ret=-1
ping: sendto: Operation not permitted
ping: wrote 204.71.200.74 64 chars, ret=-1

if I do the ping without doing the route, ping replies with "no route to
host"

I have no idea why it come up with "operation not permitted"?