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Date:      Sat, 14 Dec 2002 15:10:17 -0800
From:      "Scott R." <fluid@sfmidimafia.com>
To:        Joe Gwozdecki <joegw@hal-pc.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: natd mostly working but not quite...
Message-ID:  <3DFBBA59.6060200@sfmidimafia.com>
In-Reply-To: <3DFBB421.2050300@sfmidimafia.com>
References:  <3DFBB421.2050300@sfmidimafia.com> <00b301c2a3c2$eb689dc0$0300000a@lyon>

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The gateway machine is running FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE and the other two are 
running WinXP and Win2000 respectively.

-Scott

Joe Gwozdecki wrote:

> What is the OS you are running on the 3 operating systems?  Is it
> FreeBSD also or something else?
> 
> Joe Gwozdecki Houston, TX
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott R." To: Sent: Saturday,
> December 14, 2002 4:43 PM Subject: natd mostly working but not
> quite...
> 
> 
> 
>> [note: please cc me in any replies as I am not currently subscribed
>> to freebsd-questions.  Thank you.]
>> 
>> I'm using a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE box as a gateway for my household 
>> network (3 machines total).  I'm using natd + ipfw + DHCP.  It
>> works mostly as it should (i.e. the other two boxes are able to
>> connect to the internet as expected), but there are some
>> inconsistencies.  For example, if I go to Yahoo! and look up a map,
>> I get a "The connection was refused while attempting to contact
>> rd.yahoo.com" message when I try to zoom in. This does not happen
>> from the FreeBSD box itself (everything works perfectly normally on
>> this box).  Also, those wonderful ads embedded in many web pages do
>> not come up due to similar "connection refused" messages.  This
>> leads me to believe that something is not translating but I'm not
>> sure what it could be.  I tried disabling the firewall completely
>> and that brought no change to this odd behavior.  I tried bypassing
>> DHCP by setting everything statically, but the behavior was still
>> the same.
>> 
>> At my last apartment, I was running FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE as the 
>> firewall OS and everything worked just fine.  Has something changed
>> in 4.7 that might cause this behavior?  Or, could this just be an
>> oddity when dealing with AT&T Broadband (I had Sprint at the other
>> place).
>> 
>> I'm not sure what information might be required to try and 
>> debug/diagnose this so more info is available upon request.  Any
>> and all ideas will be greatly appreciated!  Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> -Scott
>> 
>> 
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