Thanks for the work done by various members of the Linux-IL mailing list in the past and for the miniscule effort they put answering my question, the problem was solved.
- - - - - - - - - - It was the tcpmss problem, which was discussed by Avishai (who referred me to past messages by him). Sagi Bashari pointed out this fact, too. - - - Tsafrir Cohen asked if this could be an ISP problem. No, it wasn't. We installed a sacrificial Windows 2000 installation, for testing the ADSL connection, and it worked flawlessly when the PC was connected directly to the ADSL modem (of course, the LAN was disconnected from this computer during the test, as no firewall was activated on this PC). - - - Since we use Linux 2.2.* kernel, we had to modify the MTU of machines in the network, and this meant fiddling with rc.local, MS-Windows NT registry and MS-Windows 2000 registry. Is there a way for lazy^h^h^h^hbusy sysadmins to fix it in the gateway machine using kernel 2.2.* and ipchains? - - - Mulix suggested that we check if ecn is enabled. At the moment, this is irrelevant as the setup is working. I congratulate him for having the --quirks patch accpeted to cvs pptp last night, even though it is neither necessary nor harmful in setups involving the Alcatel's Speed Touch HOME ADSL modem (an Ethernet modem, working with regular phone lines). - - - While he didn't actually offer a quick and immediate solution to the problem, Geoffrey S. Mendelson suggested some security enhancements, such as limiting Web access to a Web proxy server running on the gateway machine and using SOCKS. What is the opinion of other list members about those security provisions? Would you install such a setup in your home network? We do have two Ethernet cards in the gateway PC - one for communication with the ADSL modem, the other - for communicating with the rest of the computers. --- Omer There is no IGLU Cabal. Problems do get solved even without such a formal organization. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]