From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 21 18:50:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA22196 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 May 1997 18:50:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.mortykai.com (mortykai.com [207.99.60.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA22190 for ; Wed, 21 May 1997 18:50:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from morty.mortykai.com ( [207.99.60.65] ) by mail.mortykai.com (Hethmon Brothers Smtpd) ; Wed, 21 May 1997 21:50:09 est5edt Message-Id: <199704212150.0941706.7@mail.mortykai.com> Received: from localhost(127.0.0.1) by morty.mortykai.com ; 21 May 97 21:50:08 EDT4 From: "morty" To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Wed, 21 May 97 21:50:07 -0500 Reply-To: "morty" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 1.91 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: icmp/udp ok, tcp not happening Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk im still unable to access external hosts through a packet forwarding gateway. ive been racking by brains for days. can anybody help? icmp (ping) and udp (dns) to external hosts is working but it cant make any external tcp connection. internal connections are fine. other internal hosts can connect to external hosts. route monitor displays this message: got message of size 124 RTM_LOSING: Kernal Suspects Partitioning: len124, pid:0, seq: 0, errno: 0, flags: locks: inits: sockaddrs: 165.113.58.23 207.99.60.65 i can ping the host and traceroute to it. ive reinstalled freebsd many times tcp packets are going out but not receiving any response. can someone give me their ftp or telnet address and see if the packets are reaching you? or can someone try telnetting to 207.99.60.66? thanks. -morty- heard any good ones lately? send them to mailto:jokes@mortykai.com