I'm afraid it was a mistake to raise this problem here. I thought that *ISP's problems*, which are raised only when Linux is on the other side, would interest the list. As it already happened in the past. The ISP's don't give a damn, because 99% of their users use Winodws. They just ask you whether you use the "haigan" of Bezeq or of them, and ask you what the error code is. And please don't tell them about CHAP and PAP. They've never heard such terms. Not to mention Linux.
So before telling what was probably the problem, let me tell what was NOT the problem: My router ran for months flawlessly. I'm not this newbie that will start a session using one routing and continue it in another routing. Or use a wrong MTU. Or anything else. Otherwise, it would not work even for one day. But it worked for months. Recently, once per a day or two, it stops for a hour or two. It's not a disconnection, because all the protocols continue to work. Except for 80. And even 80 is working when the site is within the ISP. And nothing has been changed here, so there was no reason that it worked in the past and has problems now. Things has been changed only in the ISP, between the time that everything worked perfectly and the time that problems started to show up. So why should we obsess to search for problems in MY setup and not in them? Or at least, find a trick here to bypass THEIR problems? So after some phones calls, I found that it is a FAQ. I'm not the first to suffer from this problem in Israel, and others experienced the same problem, with exactly the same details, and the same setup. Fortunately, one of them was a start-up that supplies the infrastructure technology of ISP's, including ADSL RAS'es. So nobody (Bezeq/ISP) could blame them for having a wrong setup/configuration/Linux-instead-of-Win/ whatever. Or teach them how to connect to ADSL or what s to use. And this start-up insisted and found the bug in the default firewall configuration of the ISP. So Barak On-Line fixed the firewall configuration, and the problem has been gone. Including all the other details that I haven't mentioned, and that I suffer from them too. Tomorrow they will tell me what was the exact fix in Barak, but I don't believe that 012 will change anything. So I'll buy a third ADSL account; After all, somebody must fund the ISP's in such a hard time, don't you think so? And just one last question for other 012 ADSL users (or users of other ISP's): Has any of you experienced similar problems recently? i.e. when connectiong with a Linux connected to the Alcatel modem, and using IP masquerading, have you experienced (sometimes) problems with external HTTP sites? Please write. I don't want to leave 012 for another ISP that has the same problem. And in any case, it's probably the time to add a list of "safe-ISP's" to the great ADSL FAQ of mulix/Dani/etc. P.S. I must admit that the performance of 012 (when it works...) are great. I'll miss them. -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-23-7338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
