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Many thanks for your comments Matt.
> From: "Matt Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 02:47:44 +0100
>
> Can you telnet out (not from the gateway) on port 80? e.g.
> telnet www.microsoft.com 80
> followed by
> GET /ms.htm
> should flash a load of html past you.
I tried this. It did connect and a small amount (7 or so lines) of html went
past before www.microsoft.com broke the connection.
> If this works, then the problem is probably with your browser - what proxy
> settings are you using?
I had not set up the clients to use a proxy - certainly the one you suggest
does work fine - many thanks.
> > delay of 10 to 20 minutes before any packets are received back.
> You actually wait *that* long for them to come back?
That was doing the odd ping to keep the connection up while I timed it. I tried
again today, getting return times between 3 to 15 mins (without the proxy
setting).
I still don't understand why the browser on the gateway works fine without a
proxy setting. Another point I didn't mention is that if I use Freesco on the
gateway, everything works OK without proxies. Hence my MASQ/blueyonder
suspicions. I have been using Freesco as standard, but I would like to add some
services, and it seems easier to do that with a bigger distribution - hence
SuSE.
I am a little woried by your comments about the reliability of the blueyonder
proxy server - if I rely on it and it goes down, I would have to reboot my
gateway fropm SuSE into Freesco to get decent web performance.
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