RedHat 9 stops routing internal packets? Begging forhelphere..... please...

[c_elber]

Pete and Ben;
Thank you both so much for helping. The problem is  everything is getting
through. The problem is it is so slow that it essentially times out waiting
on the client boxes. So I'll only get say 10 to 20% of a web page before it
finally stops. Further my same rules were fine for almost a year then
suddenly it slowed waaaaaaaay down. It hasn't stopped just so slow as to be
non-responsive.

When I turn iptables off then I can't ping beyond the router.

Iptables -L

hain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

The output to iptables -L is above. I'll get the rest of the data later as
I'm currently in the middle of downloading Fedora Core 2 and don't want to
interrupt the download, and will proceed to rebuild my server if I can't
figure this out! (that will show it who is boss!)
Jo