/* HINT: Search archives @ http://www.indyramp.com/masq/ before posting! */ Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > HOWEVER the win98 machine can't browse the WWW and can't access the News > server of my ISP, it can get message counts for the newsgroups but hangs > on retrieving message bodies. So, it fails whenever large packets are being sent? In that case, FTP transfers of large files should also fail, as well as downloads of large POP messages. > I belive this is some sort of DNS problem, as when the win98 machine > is accessing IP numbers of websites directly, (eg.209.185.108.220 -> > google.com, de 199.105.102.123->happypuppy.com If DNS weren't working, none of the services would work. > Any ideas?? I've spent wayyyy to much time trying to figure this out > and I've come to the conclusion that it's something small probably. When this problem is seen, it is typically an MTU problem. Masq doesn't work well when the MTU of the masq-ing interface is smaller than the MTU of the client (typcially ethernet, 1500 bytes). > I'm also using PPPOE I thought I heard rumblings on this list, that PPPoE causes a smaller- than-ethernet MTU to be used. This is going to be trouble for you unless you can find a way to either increase the MTU of your PPP connection, or decrease the MTU of your client's ethernet (possible, I suppose). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fuzzy Fox) || "Good judgment comes from experience. sometimes known as David DeSimone || Experience comes from bad judgment." http://www.dallas.net/~fox/ || -- Life Lessons _______________________________________________ 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.
