thanks...

	I did what you suggested and also added default routes to each client via
eth0:

route displays


Destination     Gateway            Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
10.0.0.5            *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0
eth0
10.0.0.6            *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0
eth0
<snip>


thanks again, nice work.