From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 24 19:02:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA04791 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 19:02:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA04769 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 19:02:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA02680 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 19:01:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (root@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA27329; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 01:09:44 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA24139; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 01:08:42 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199809250008.BAA24139@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Thomas David Rivers cc: dan@dpcsys.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Here's a NATD thingy to try out... In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 24 Sep 1998 16:10:26 EDT." <199809242010.QAA17561@lakes.dignus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 01:08:42 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > > I'm using 2.2.6 - and perhaps this has already been addressed in 2.2.7; > > > and maybe 3.0. > > > > > > But, on an "interior" host (one which is not directly connected to > > > the internet); when I use netscape and try to get to AOL (it's just > > > an example page I've found), I discover that the page will never > > > make it. > > > > I had a 2.2.6 box w/ natd and ipfw handling a bunch of PCs at a > > trade show a month ago. Everything worked just fine. And while > > I never tried to get to AOL I'm sure several of the booth visitors > > did. > > > > Do you only see this with the URL above or some subset of the > > Internet or does nothing work? > > Most things work just fine; it's only the odd HTTP reference that seems > to go ger-flunkers. > > http://www.aol.com is an example of a place where netscape running > on an interior node won't succeed; but netscape running on the gateway > machine works just fine. I can get www.aol.com with: woof --->(LAN)---> gate --->(ppp -alias) ---> 'net ---> aol.com Are you sure this isn't a tcp_extensions problem ? > - Dave Rivers - -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message