From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 22 8:26:52 2003 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 7193A37B401 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 08:26:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from apollo.laserfence.net (apollo.laserfence.net [196.44.69.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC81343FBD for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 08:26:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@unfoldings.net) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18mcU8-000Mz3-00; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 18:26:44 +0200 Received: from prometheus-p0.datel.laserfence.net ([192.168.255.1] helo=prometheus.home.laserfence.net) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18mcTu-000Myu-00; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 18:26:31 +0200 Received: from phoenix.home.laserfence.net ([192.168.0.2]) by prometheus.home.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18mcTq-000F1O-00; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 18:26:26 +0200 Received: from will by phoenix.home.laserfence.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18mcTo-0004J4-00; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 18:26:24 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen To: "Vaughan Moore" Subject: Re: FTP installation through a NAT on a DSL connection Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 18:26:24 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: In-Reply-To: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302221826.24679.will@unfoldings.net> X-Spam-Score: (/) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18mcTu-000Myu-00*O2IQFCqv.MI* X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020422 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 22 February 2003 16:55, Vaughan Moore wrote: > I'm installing 4.7 at home. The Intel box is behind a NAT running on a > Win98 box with ZoneAlarm running. The point of installing 4.7 is so that > I can replace the 98 box as my gateway to my Verizon DSL connection. > > My installation fails when the program tries to access one of the ftp > servers. When the time-out occurs I get an installation media error > message. > > I know that my subnet on the NAT works because when I plug a 2000 machine > into the gateway I can access the Internet. However, I had to lower the > Max MTU settings in the registry to do it. I understand that PPPoE > requires a lower MTU setting, but I'm not sure how to set MTU in the > installation program. > > Can anyone help me with the problem? > > Vaughan Moore > I'm almost sure MTU is not the problem in this case, the Windows machine should be taking care of that. Try setting FTP into passive mode in the installer's options screen, or turning off passive mode if that's the default on your version. Windows 98 NATs are not famous for handling FTP properly. -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) will@unfoldings.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message