On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 13:34 -0500, Dave Beach wrote: > This is undoubtedly off-topic in oh-so-many ways; I'd be quite happy to be > redirected to another, more appropriate mailing list should someone be so > kind as to suggest one. > > Internal, home, private network, WinXP boxen and a Squid proxy, connecting > through an iptables box to my router and cable modem. Everything works > peachy. > > While trying to poke bittorrent holes through my iptables setup (see? Some > vague evidence of relevance), I encountered problems and decided to take the > proxy out of the picture. VERY much to my surprise, when I reconfigured IE > to not use the proxy (and configured iptables to allow for a direct > connection), I see no HTTP traffic whatsoever leaving the XP box destined > for the firewall. In fact, no TCP traffic either (all traffic analysis done > with ethereal on the XP box). I can ping to/from the XP box, and see THAT > via ethereal. > > I am considerably confused by this. My presumption was that IE would just > happily send HTTP traffic directly to the firewall, but this is NOT the > behaviour I'm seeing. > > I know it's Christmas Eve day, and I was out a bit late last night, but > there's clearly something VERY obvious I'm missing. > > If the problem is on the XP station (no packets egressing), could there be an XP personal firewall problem? - John -- John A. Sullivan III Open Source Development Corporation +1 207-985-7880 jsullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Financially sustainable open source development http://www.opensourcedevel.com
