From: "Marc Sherman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have a debian box running pppoe and ipmasq set up as > a router/firewall for a home network. I have a Win98 > machine behind the firewall. > > I can't read news on the win98 machine (using my ISPs > news server, news1.sympatico.ca). I've tried a number > of news clients (OE5, Free Agent, etc) on the win98 > box - this seems to be a problem with the ipmasq, I > think. I could read news on the Win98 machine fine > when it was connected directly to the ADSL modem, > running its own PPPOE driver.
Some more info I forgot to mention: It connects to the nntp server fine. It can correctly get the last msg ID in a newsgroup (which it uses to estimate the number of new msgs in the group). When I try to download headers for the new messages, it fails (times out, without any headers being downloaded). When I try to download the entire list of newsgroups from the server, it consistently downloads the first 240 newsgroups, and then no futher data is transmitted (but the download doesn't complete - the hourglass just spins). I've tried setting the MASQ timesouts in ipchains very high (ipchains -M -S 36000 36000 36000) without efffect. I tried installing midentd, thinking that maybe the news server was trying to verify my account name using ident, but that didn't help either. - Marc
