Re: [gentoo-hardened] socket timeouts when forwarded over gprs/ppp

2008-02-01 Thread atoth
Do you take car of the MTU? Maybe you should clamp it as with ADSL. Do a Google search on TCPMMS. Regards, Dw. -- dr Tóth Attila, Radiológus Szakorvos jelölt, 06-20-825-8057, 06-30-5962-962 Attila Toth MD, Radiologist in Training, +36-20-825-8057, +36-30-5962-962 On Pén, Február 1, 2008 10:05, B

Re: [gentoo-hardened] socket timeouts when forwarded over gprs/ppp

2008-02-01 Thread Alex Efros
Hi! Try this one: -A FORWARD -p tcp -m tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -j TCPMSS --clamp-mss-to-pmtu and read `man iptables`, paragraph "TCPMSS" for description of this issue. P.S. Looks like your question is offtopic in this maillist, probably you should use gentoo-server@ for such questions. --

[gentoo-hardened] socket timeouts when forwarded over gprs/ppp

2008-02-01 Thread Brian Modra
Hi, I'm having trouble with sockets apparently timing out too quickly when they are logically over ethernet, but physically forwarded over a slow ppp link. The fastest network available to me is GPRS/EDGE. So I have one PC connecting to my ISP using EDGE, and 4 other PCs connected to it using Ethe