From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 18 19:44:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74AF516A4CE for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 19:44:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from msr7.hinet.net (msr7.hinet.net [168.95.4.107]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D662B43D1F for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 19:44:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net) Received: from sonic.utopia.com (61-227-219-86.HINET-IP.hinet.net [61.227.219.86]) by msr7.hinet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA00435 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:43:04 +0800 (CST) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:46:57 +0800 From: Robert Storey To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040219114657.431db5cc.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> Organization: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.5-gtk2-20030906 (GTK+ 2.2.4; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Win200 gateway blocking FBSD html? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 03:44:11 -0000 I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD client machine for a school. They have never used FBSD or even Linux, they are 100% Windows. They are interested in letting their students gain experience with non-Windows software. So I need to prove to them that FBSD can work, but I've run into a major obstacle. The client machines are connected to a switch, which is connected to a Windows 2000 gateway machine to access the Internet. I set up a FBSD client, and using dhcp it can find the network. I can ping the gateway machine, and even ping the local ISP. I can also use gftp to access some anonymous ftp sites (such as FreeBSD.org) though performance seems slow. The problem - I cannot access any web sites with http. Doesn't matter if I use Konqueror, Mozilla or Lynx. Yet, all the Windows machines on this network can browse the web (using Internet Explorer) without difficulty. I find this very peculiar. Just to be sure that I don't have a misconfigured firewall on the FBSD box, I installed FBSD on my laptop, plugged it into a different network - works fine, I can surf the web. Then I plug it into the school's network, and http doesn't work, but ping and ftp can reach the outside world (though again, it's slow). Is it somehow possible that the Windows gateway only allows Internet Explorer to work? Doesn't seem possible, but what do I know? All suggestions welcome. best regards, Robert