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Re: Masquerading problem with ADSL




Hi Eyal,

Set the MTU on the windows box to 1452. the Adsl HOWTO will guide you how
to do that.

Sagi

On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Eyal Harpaz wrote:

>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have successfully connected to the ISP using the ADSL-HOWTO on iglu, but
> I am unable to masquerade any HTTP (specifically HTTP, everything else
> works OK) connections.
>
> I am using a 2.4.3 vanilla kernel, with iptables.
> I issue
>
> [root@RedGhost /root]# iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.1.0/24 -i
> ppp0 -j MASQUERADE
> [root@RedGhost /root]# echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>
> After which all my client machines ( Win2k and win98 ) can successfully
> ping to the internet, use irc, ftp and everything EXCEPT http.
> When I try to use HTTP I can see the information leave (via tcpdump) and I
> can see that there is a reply from the http server, but it never reaches
> the client machine.
>
> On the linux box itself every network service works, so I think that this
> is a masquerading problem.
>
> I get the exact same behaviour using ipchains on a 2.2.16 kernel.
> The distribution I am using is Redhat 7.0.
>
> The one thing that really bothers me is that when I telnet to a HTTP
> server, say yahoo, on port 80, and I issue an INCORRECT request, I get the
> error on the client machine correctly.
> If I telnet on port 80 and issue a correct request then it waits about 2-3
> minutes, after which I get all the information.
>
>
> Any ideas, anybody?????
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eyal
>
>
>
>
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