sure.... as long as there's layer three traffic. Pinging? Pinging hosts in your network? pinging hosts in internet? What's the output of ipconfig /all and route print? (ugh!!! :-) ) On 12/24/05, Dave Beach <drbeach@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes, and if it were a DNS problem you'd (sorry, *I'd*) think I'd see > DNS-related traffic from the XP box. But... Nothing. At all. Zip. Zilch. > Nada. No web-related traffic whatsoever originating from the XP box when the > proxy settings in IE are de-selected. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Edmundo Carmona [mailto:eantoranz@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: December 24, 2005 2:06 PM > To: Dave Beach > Subject: Re: Networking question > > and say... if you ping a host outside of your network, the ping is routed > through the GW box? > > It could be a DNS problem, because IE will try to resolve a domain name > before sending a HTTP request. > > On 12/24/05, Dave Beach <drbeach@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
