Re: PPPOE, ipmasq, and news (more info)
From: "Marc Sherman" <msherman@myrealbox.com>
> 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
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