From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Robert Schimansky" Subject: Re: Weird routing problem? Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:30:34 +0100 Message-ID: <002101c4d7a9$f00c4f80$e167aec1@wsidipl05> References: <200412010418.41288.hancock@anansispaceworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii"; reply-type="original" To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org hello, when using an ethernet-dsl-modem - and maybe with some other devices too - you have to set the MTU of your NAT-ed computers. see http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article04-107 I would appreciate if somebody could tell how I could solve this on the router insteasd of reconfiguring the "clients" greetings Robert > Hi, > I have set up a Debian Woody system as a dialup gateway > system using iptables. This mostly works, but for a fairly > large number of internet sites, I get hang-ups when trying > to access them from the client machines on my LAN. (Not sure > about the statistics, but it's enough that it could be, for > example, any site runnning IIS or some other lesser-used HTTP server). > > For example, if I use a simple console web-browser like > w3m, I can access: > > w3m http://www.poalo.com > > from the console of my router, BUT the same command from > the console of a client machine on the LAN results in no > reply!