/* HINT: Search archives @ http://www.indyramp.com/masq/ before posting!
/* ALSO: Don't quote this header. It makes you look lame :-) */
While you are assuming that the remote site stops sending, this is rarely
the case.
It's far more probable that your internal machines failed to "ack" the last
packets which causes the input stream to "dry up" appearing to you that the
remote machine quits sending.
Try using simple Masq WITHOUT any of the rules for a few minutes.
I'll bet the problem disappears...
-JMS
|-----Original Message-----
|From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
|Of Lance A. Brown
|Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 9:26 PM
|To: IP-Masq List
|Subject: [Masq] Linux IP Masq w/ Cablemodem serving Windows PC problems
|
|
|/* HINT: Search archives @ http://www.indyramp.com/masq/ before posting!
|/* ALSO: Don't quote this header. It makes you look lame :-) */
|
|
|Greetings,
|
|I've been through the IP-Masq howto, and the masq list archives....
|
|I've got a real head scratcher going on my home network. I have a 2
|node hubbed 10Mbit network at home. One node is my linux box, RH 6.2
|w/ RH 2.2.16-3 kernel RPM with 2 NICs and a RoadRunner cablemodem
|one eth0 and the local ethernet on eth1. The second node is a
|Windows 98 system. Both are connected to a dumb little NetBus 8 port
|10Mbit hub.
|
|I have linux set up with ipchains to IP Masq the internal network to
|the cablemodem interface and I run a split DNS system on the linux
|system to provide minimal name service for the windows box.
|Everything worked fine for several weeks and then the windows box
|started developing problems accessing websites, and with having AOL
|connections via TCP/IP disconnected randomly and often.
|
|I was using the pmfirewall script to provide the ipchains setup,
|trashed that and developed a minimal ipchains setup. That change
|didn't help anything. If we attach the cablemodem directly to the
|windows system it works fine. Re-attach it to the linux box and it
|start crapping out again.
|
|I've tried tcpdumping all traffic on both interfaces on the linux box
|and watching things as they happen. It appears that the windows box
|makes the initial connection to a website but after a 2 or 3
|exchanges of packets, the remote site just stops sending anything.....
|
|Has anyone seen this kind of problem before and can you offer
|assistance?
|
|--[Lance]
|
|_______________________________________________
|Masq maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Admin requests can be handled at http://www.indyramp.com/masq-list/ --
|THIS INCLUDES UNSUBSCRIBING!
|or email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
|PLEASE read the HOWTO and search the archives before posting.
|You can start your search at http://www.indyramp.com/masq/
|Please keep general linux/unix/pc/internet questions off the list.
_______________________________________________
Masq maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Admin requests can be handled at http://www.indyramp.com/masq-list/ --
THIS INCLUDES UNSUBSCRIBING!
or email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PLEASE read the HOWTO and search the archives before posting.
You can start your search at http://www.indyramp.com/masq/
Please keep general linux/unix/pc/internet questions off the list.
