Re: Connection through gateway fails in a random basis

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On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 20:07:55 +0200
Pascal Hambourg <pascal.mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Pedro Werneck a écrit :
> >>
> >>I can't answer your question but I can point out what looks like a 
> >>serious error in your rules -- the firewall is wide open.  You
> >should  >either change your default policy on the INPUT chain to
> >DROP, or you  >should append a rule "-A INPUT -j DROP".
> > 
> > Yes... I know that. I changed it in the hope it would fix the
> > problem
> 
> Did it ?

No, of course...

> It seems that your connection uses PPPoE, so my first thought is the 
> well-known MTU problem. What happens if you lower the MTU of you 
> internal hosts below 1492 ?

Yes... it seems like that's the problem. It was 1500, I first tried with
1454 and it works, but it works with 1492 too... 


Thanks a lot

-- 
Pedro Werneck



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