Quoting "Matthew H. Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The problem is that my wife's windows box will make external > connections > but won't finish downloading anything but the smallest pages. It also > seems to timeout on network connections on the intranet. The odd > thing > is that there is a dual-boot Linux/Windows machine that is having no > problems whatsoever also on the network. The windows box in question > gets a proper ip address from DHCP and can ping other boxes and > external > hosts. Pings from the other machines on the network to the windows > box > are ok, but occasionally packets get dropped. If the machine is put > on > a direct connection to the internet, it has no problems. > > The firewall is a Debian 2.2 fresh install with a custom built kernel > connected to a DSL line. It is running the ipmasq .deb, samba and > providing dhcp to the internal network. Portsentry is monitoring > incoming connections, but I've checked /etc/hosts.deny and there's > nothing there > that shouldn't be. > > I've tested the cables, switched the hub connections, switched out > network cards and reinstalled the drivers on the windows box several > times. > > Anyone want to take a shot at solving this one? > > Thanks, > Matt Ray > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Matt, This sounds exactly like a problem I was seeing on one of my Win98 boxen inside my Debian firewall network here at home. I fixed my problem by reinstalling Win98 on the broken machine. The problem had noting to do with my most excellent firewall. I proved this to myself by using a second Win98 box and making good downloads, (also my Debian boxen were seeing no problems). I suspect that the intoduction of Netscape with their download manager and then the de-install of that download manager broke my Win box. Perhaps I could have fixed the Win98 box, but I did not try to hard. Good luck, -- Bill C.R.E.A.M. Dark Angel
