Thanks for the reply. The default gateway for the internal network is the firewall box. -----Original Message----- From: netfilter-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:netfilter-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Edmundo Carmona Sent: December 24, 2005 1:59 PM To: netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Networking question Probably there's no gateway in the XP box setup... or the gateway is plain wrong. Merry Xorg-mas to everyone around! ;-) On 12/24/05, Dave Beach <drbeach@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > >
