On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 08:28, Antony Stone wrote: > On Saturday 22 May 2004 12:59 pm, Sven Riedel wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm using a Linux 2.6.6 box as a masquerading firewall via dialup for a > > local network. From the internal network I can reach some websites (e.g. > > www.debian.org) but can't reach others (e.g. www.freshmeat.net). The > > unreachable sites _can_ be reached from the firewall-box itself though. > > This sounds like an MSS / MTU mismatch poblem. Try doing a Google search for > "clamp MSS to MTU" - that should give you some pointers. > > Can't offer specific advice myself since I've never experienced the problem, > but I've seen it here from others several times before. > > Regards, > > Antony. Antony's diagnosis is the more likely problem but, if there is an old proxy somewhere in the path, it can produce similar results. If the page uses some call that the proxy does not understand, some pages may be blocked. -- John A. Sullivan III Chief Technology Officer Nexus Management +1 207-985-7880 john.sullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx --- If you are interested in helping to develop a GPL enterprise class VPN/Firewall/Security device management console, please visit http://iscs.sourceforge.net
