On Thursday 05 February 2004 06:54 pm, Ted Erickson wrote: > I am somewhat new to IPTables but not to linux. I have a major problem. > Some background first... I have a PPoA SDSL connection with Qwest running > at 640k/up/down. I have a static block of 8 addresses.....I have a > connection from the DSL modem to eth0 on my Redhat 9.0 box and I have my > local network pluged into eth1. The only thing running on the linux box is > IPTables nothing else. I turned on echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > and enabled MASQ in several different ways..... no problem. I can surf the > internet just fine on my local network machine but I have ONE BIG > PROBLEM!!! I can't view a handfull of websites. If I take the linux box > out of the picture and throw a cheap Linksys Router on the same DSL > connection I can see all the web sites i want. IPTables is blocking > something but I don't know what? I can't find any info on the web with this > problem. I need to fix this ASAP or I will have to go with something else, > but I want to stay with linux. Try adding the rule: iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN \ -j TCPMSS --clamp-mss-to-pmtu -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ teastep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
