Re: Strange connection problems.

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Are you blocking ICMP ??

On 4/13/05, Ryan Belcher <Ryanb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Gentlemen,
> 
> Thank you!  That cleared things up perfectly.  ppp0 had the MTU set for 1492; however, none of the other interfaces did (including eth1 which I failed to mention was actually the path to ppp0).  You are both gentlemen and scholars.
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> Ryan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Opperisano [mailto:opie@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 6:04 PM
> To: netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Strange connection problems.
> 
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 05:14:09PM -0400, Ryan Belcher wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Below I've posted my FW config.  It's handling 3 interfaces.  ppp0, eth0, an ath0.
> > It's on Linux kernel version 2.6.10.
> >
> > Pretty much everything works as I expect except for a strange issue with certain websites while trying to connect from clients within my network.  For example, penny-arcade.com, americanexpress.com SSL logins, and a few others.  If you want to poke at this configuration, penny-arcade will appear to begin connection but after the SYN, ACK, then HTTP GET sequence, the HTTP response never gets here (according to Ethereal anyways).  If I try connecting from the actual firewalling box itself, it works fine.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas?
> 
> sounds like the classic description of an MTU issue.
> 
> -j
> 
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> 
> 


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