hello, i have a big problem with my router. i installed a dsl-card into my linux-box and got the router to run. i use nat with masquerading like that: # iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE all is wonderfully and i can access most of the sites / services.. .but only most. i have many trouble with one big web page (gmx.de). i tryed to access this page once from my router and from my masqueraded client. i got two statements. on means that i can access the other means i can not. this is my router: traceroute to www.gmx.de (213.165.65.100), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 217.5.98.178 (217.5.98.178) 51.24 ms 51.194 ms 78.382 ms 2 217.237.157.130 (217.237.157.130) 49.83 ms 50.141 ms 49.827 ms 3 INXS-gw20.M.net.DTAG.DE (194.25.6.14) 61.395 ms 59.688 ms 59.583 ms 4 62.156.128.226 (62.156.128.226) 57.412 ms 57.86 ms 56.333 ms 5 www.gmx.net (213.165.65.100) 60.417 ms 60.223 ms 61.81 ms this my client: (i've translated the statements, because i get a german output here) Routenverfolgung zu www.gmx.net [213.165.65.100] über maximal 30 Abschnitte: 1 10 ms <10 ms <10 ms xerxes.home [192.168.0.1] 2 50 ms 70 ms 50 ms 217.5.98.178 3 60 ms 61 ms 50 ms 217.237.157.130 4 60 ms 80 ms 70 ms INXS-gw20.M.net.DTAG.DE [194.25.6.14] 5 * * * out of time. 6 62.156.128.226 meldet (report): Network is unreachable. may it be that the network (gmx.de) is masqueraded, too. and this is the reason of unreachable?? please help. thanks