I am wondering if anyone has come into this really unique problem... Short story...
I had a gateway box on different hardware, that finally kicked the bucket. I purchased new hardware rebuilt gentoo on it and I was able to get on the internet as I used to with the old box....however... with one issue that has gotten the best of me... I have spent hours recompiling kernel options and iptables. Google'ing and reading as much as I can on the issue. I have sniffed the traffic both on the gateway server and on the laptop(s) that I have experienced the issue on. Now, what the problem is...I vpn (over ssl, to a Juniper device) to my job. What I am seeing is when I finally connect I can ping hosts internal to my work network, but when I try to initiate a connection (ssh, http, rdp, etc) I get no where. It just hangs on trying to establish the connections. Upon sniffing the traffic I see that I start to generate duplicate acks/packets and the connection fails. I have tried already enableing and disabling things with ethtool to no avail. Now the kicker! I boot up on the same computer using Ubuntu live cd and import the same firewall rules and everything works as it should! It is an elusive issue and I know that I am not doing it justice in the email but any nod in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Nes++ -- [email protected] mailing list
