Until I installed my RH5.2 Linux server, I'd been using InJoy for OS/2
as my gateway program. InJoy provides the services of diald, ipfw, and
pppd in one program. The same machine was running a BIND 8 caching name
server. When packets from the LAN arrived (usually a POP3 or HTTP
session), the first packet arriving would be DNS, followed shortly by
the real protocol. The system would dial out and all the packets always
made it out the interface.
Now I have diald-0.16p5/ipfw/pppd set up. I also have a caching name
server on the Linux box that forwards to the ISP DNS, and the LAN
clients query the Linux box for DNS.
With this setup, it appears that the first packets are lost, the LAN
machines wait for a response that never arrives, and meanwhile diald
has brought up the connection, timed out, and shut back down. If I
restart the failing app immediately so that it gets a packet through
after the interface is up, all goes well.
What can I do to keep from losing those initial packets? Would -reroute
do what I need? (I'd rather have reliability than performance right
now.) Would upgrading to 0.98-x help at all?
Ken
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