From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 20 04:50:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1F6916A4CE for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 04:50:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C810043D2F for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 04:50:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186])18chat@freebsd.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:46:17 +0100 (MET) Received: from alex.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kruij557.speed.planet.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1KCjhmc003092; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:45:43 +0100 Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by alex.lan (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i1KCjgAk003091; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:45:42 +0100 Content-return: prohibited Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:45:42 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <1077191239.58209.4.camel@aledt.tech.ensign.ftech.net> To: Aled Treharne Message-id: <20040220124542.GA854@alex.lan> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i References: <20040219114657.431db5cc.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> <20040219083023.GA995@alex.lan> <1077191239.58209.4.camel@aledt.tech.ensign.ftech.net> X-Authentication-warning: alex.lan: akruijff set sender to freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl using -f cc: chat@freebsd.org cc: Robert Storey Subject: Re: Win200 gateway blocking FBSD html? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:50:35 -0000 On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 11:47:20AM +0000, Aled Treharne wrote: > On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 08:30, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > Dear Robert, > > > > > 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. > [...] > > > 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. > > > > No a firewall doesn't know anything like that. It makes it choices based > [...] > > True... > > > known working client. The other option is that is a proxy server > [...] > > Ah! And here lies the crux of it. If you have Microsoft Proxy server > installed with Proxy client on each of the machines, the Proxy client > hooks into the IP stack of the client machine. I've never looked into it > in any depth, but this may be what is causing your headaches. > > The solution is either to set up the proxy server to proxy HTTP > properly, install a different Proxy software on there (try Wingate), or > alternatively, install FreeBSD and squid on there. :) I think I can quess what you will advise. :D -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/