Re: Networking question

["John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com>]

On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 13:34 -0500, Dave Beach wrote:
>  This is undoubtedly off-topic in oh-so-many ways; I'd be quite happy to be
> redirected to another, more appropriate mailing list should someone be so
> kind as to suggest one.
> 
> Internal, home, private network, WinXP boxen and a Squid proxy, connecting
> through an iptables box to my router and cable modem. Everything works
> peachy.
> 
> While trying to poke bittorrent holes through my iptables setup (see? Some
> vague evidence of relevance), I encountered problems and decided to take the
> proxy out of the picture. VERY much to my surprise, when I reconfigured IE
> to not use the proxy (and configured iptables to allow for a direct
> connection), I see no HTTP traffic whatsoever leaving the XP box destined
> for the firewall. In fact, no TCP traffic either (all traffic analysis done
> with ethereal on the XP box). I can ping to/from the XP box, and see THAT
> via ethereal.
> 
> I am considerably confused by this. My presumption was that IE would just
> happily send HTTP traffic directly to the firewall, but this is NOT the
> behaviour I'm seeing.
> 
> I know it's Christmas Eve day, and I was out a bit late last night, but
> there's clearly something VERY obvious I'm missing.
> 
> 
If the problem is on the XP station (no packets egressing), could there
be an XP personal firewall problem? - John
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