Hi all, Just experienced a very weird problem.
My Debian box has 2 NIC's: eth1 connects to the cable modem and the outside world, eth0 connects to the Windoze boxen on my LAN (192.168.1.0/8 - Masqueraded access to outside world.) Yesterday I had a weird thing. My Debian box could not connect to my ISP's SMTP server - no response whatsoever. What's weird is I could connect to the same box on the same port from my masqueraded Windoze boxes!! Bringing the external ethernet interface down and back up again fixed the problem - but why was it happening in the first place? Has anybody else seen anything like this, or have any theories as to what was going on? Paul Haesler
