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Date:      Fri, 25 Sep 1998 01:08:42 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
Cc:        dan@dpcsys.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: Here's a NATD thingy to try out... 
Message-ID:  <199809250008.BAA24139@woof.lan.awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Sep 1998 16:10:26 EDT." <199809242010.QAA17561@lakes.dignus.com> 

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> > 
> > On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Thomas David Rivers wrote:
> > > I'm using 2.2.6 - and perhaps this has already been addressed in 2.2.7;
> > > and maybe 3.0.
> > > 
> > > But, on an "interior" host (one which is not directly connected to
> > > the internet); when I use netscape and try to get to AOL (it's just
> > > an example page I've found), I discover that the page will never
> > > make it.
> > 
> > I had a 2.2.6 box w/ natd and ipfw handling a bunch of PCs at a
> > trade show a month ago.  Everything worked just fine.  And while
> > I never tried to get to AOL I'm sure several of the booth visitors
> > did.
> > 
> > Do you only see this with the URL above or some subset of the
> > Internet or does nothing work?
> 
>  Most things work just fine; it's only the odd HTTP reference that seems
> to go ger-flunkers.  
> 
>   http://www.aol.com is an example of a place where netscape running
> on an interior node won't succeed; but netscape running on the gateway
> machine works just fine.

I can get www.aol.com with:

  woof --->(LAN)---> gate --->(ppp -alias) ---> 'net ---> aol.com

Are you sure this isn't a tcp_extensions problem ?

> 	- Dave Rivers -

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