Hi Sagi
The MTU on the clients _is_ 1452. That doesn't change anything.
(FTP-ing a big file works. This problem is HTTP specific and has nothing to do
with the packet size.)
Thanks,
Eyal
Sagi Bashari wrote:
> Hi Eyal,
>
> Set the MTU on the windows box to 1452. the Adsl HOWTO will guide you how
> to do that.
>
> Sagi
>
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Eyal Harpaz wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have successfully connected to the ISP using the ADSL-HOWTO on iglu, but
> > I am unable to masquerade any HTTP (specifically HTTP, everything else
> > works OK) connections.
> >
> > I am using a 2.4.3 vanilla kernel, with iptables.
> > I issue
> >
> > [root@RedGhost /root]# iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.1.0/24 -i
> > ppp0 -j MASQUERADE
> > [root@RedGhost /root]# echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> >
> > After which all my client machines ( Win2k and win98 ) can successfully
> > ping to the internet, use irc, ftp and everything EXCEPT http.
> > When I try to use HTTP I can see the information leave (via tcpdump) and I
> > can see that there is a reply from the http server, but it never reaches
> > the client machine.
> >
> > On the linux box itself every network service works, so I think that this
> > is a masquerading problem.
> >
> > I get the exact same behaviour using ipchains on a 2.2.16 kernel.
> > The distribution I am using is Redhat 7.0.
> >
> > The one thing that really bothers me is that when I telnet to a HTTP
> > server, say yahoo, on port 80, and I issue an INCORRECT request, I get the
> > error on the client machine correctly.
> > If I telnet on port 80 and issue a correct request then it waits about 2-3
> > minutes, after which I get all the information.
> >
> >
> > Any ideas, anybody?????
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Eyal
> >
> >
> >
> >
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