Re: IPMasqing firewall with a Windows client problem
Quoting "Matthew H. Ray" <mray@coral-tech.com>:
> The problem is that my wife's windows box will make external
> connections
> but won't finish downloading anything but the smallest pages. It also
> seems to timeout on network connections on the intranet. The odd
> thing
> is that there is a dual-boot Linux/Windows machine that is having no
> problems whatsoever also on the network. The windows box in question
> gets a proper ip address from DHCP and can ping other boxes and
> external
> hosts. Pings from the other machines on the network to the windows
> box
> are ok, but occasionally packets get dropped. If the machine is put
> on
> a direct connection to the internet, it has no problems.
>
> The firewall is a Debian 2.2 fresh install with a custom built kernel
> connected to a DSL line. It is running the ipmasq .deb, samba and
> providing dhcp to the internal network. Portsentry is monitoring
> incoming connections, but I've checked /etc/hosts.deny and there's
> nothing there
> that shouldn't be.
>
> I've tested the cables, switched the hub connections, switched out
> network cards and reinstalled the drivers on the windows box several
> times.
>
> Anyone want to take a shot at solving this one?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt Ray
> slack@linuxfreak.com
>
>
Matt,
This sounds exactly like a problem I was seeing on one of my Win98 boxen inside
my Debian firewall network here at home. I fixed my problem by reinstalling
Win98 on the broken machine. The problem had noting to do with my most
excellent firewall. I proved this to myself by using a second Win98 box and
making good downloads, (also my Debian boxen were seeing no problems). I
suspect that the intoduction of Netscape with their download manager and then
the de-install of that download manager broke my Win box. Perhaps I could have
fixed the Win98 box, but I did not try to hard.
Good luck,
-- Bill
C.R.E.A.M. Dark Angel
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