Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:10:19 +1000 From: alasdair@iprimus.com.au To: "Norberto Meijome" <freebsd@meijome.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to access certain sites from FreeBSD 6.2 Message-ID: <4899F40F0000E223@cpms02.int.iprimus.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20080820165156.3c101f7c@ayiin>
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G'day Norberto,
Thanks for your reply.
How do I "run an ipfw divert rule to
>net/tcpmssd process " ? Where do I set this rule?
My technical level is probably best described as better than the average
computer user, but well below any competency you would expect for a networking
expert.
Regards,
Alasdair
Regards,
>-- Original Message --
>Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:51:56 +1000
>From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
>To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Unable to access certain sites from FreeBSD 6.2
>
>
>On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:55:45 +1000
>alasdair@iprimus.com.au wrote:
>
>> Hi, I am having a problem accessing some sites from Freebsd 6.2 in either
>> firefox or Opera. I looked around for some advice on this on the net,
found
>> some pages mentioning this as a problem when Freebsd was running on the
>machine
>>
>> acting as the gateway and the machines trying to access the sites were
>Windows
>> or Mac. But my case is this
>>
>> my set up: Laptop(FreeBSD 6.2) -> netgearFVS318 router-> ADSL modem
(set
>> up as bridge)
>
>gday :)
>i'm on FBSD7, ipfw local firewall , dlink router, iinet, Sydney - no problems
>getting to commbank.
>
>We used to have similar issues when running a 6.x gateway behind a SHDSL
>line.
>The issue was the MSS was too high - i had to run an ipfw divert rule to
>net/tcpmssd process to fix this. It was affecting mainly traffic coming
from
>IIS hosts (no idea why :P ).
>
>HIH,
>B
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