From: Jeremy Jackson <jerj@coplanar.net>
To: Martin Hicks <mort@bork.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4 and PPPoE problem
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:18:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AAD2F0F.AC96318F@coplanar.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010312145749.A8645@plato.bork.org>
Martin Hicks wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using PPPoE with an i586 machine running 2.4.2.
are you using the kernel pppoe or the user-space one (rp-pppoe, etc)?
did it work on other kernels?
>
>
> The machine connects fine and allows network traffic to pass
> through the link.
>
> However, certain websites seem to choke.
> (notable ones are www.chapters.ca and www.hp.com)
>
> Using Lynx or Netscape I get the same results, a few bytes of
> traffic are received and then nothing (eventually the connection
> times out).
>
> The same does not happen in windows. (ugh)
>
> I have not encountered any machine that I have telnet/ftp/ssh
> access to that breaks in this way so I can only confirm that http traffic
> is not working.
>
> This gateway machine does masquerading, and internal machines and the external
> machine react the same way.
are you positive the external (2.4.2 machine, right?) acts this way?
you can send me a tcpdump trace of a session or two that chokes.
>
>
> TIA
> mh
>
> Here is some useful info:
>
> mort@galileo:~$ uname -a
> Linux galileo 2.4.2 #4 Thu Feb 22 14:13:23 EST 2001 i586 unknown
>
> mort@galileo:~$ /sbin/ifconfig ppp0
> ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
> inet addr:209.217.122.37 P-t-P:209.217.122.1 Mask:255.255.255.255
> UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1480 Metric:1
> RX packets:1272056 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:1476697 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
> RX bytes:430171737 (410.2 Mb) TX bytes:1260803415 (1202.3 Mb)
>
> mort@galileo:~$ /sbin/route
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> magma * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
> 192.168.69.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> default magma 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0
>
> --
> Martin Hicks || mort@bork.org
> Use PGP/GnuPG || DSS PGP Key: 0x4C7F2BEE
> Beer: So much more than just a breakfast drink.
>
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2001-03-12 19:57 2.4 and PPPoE problem Martin Hicks
2001-03-12 20:18 ` Jeremy Jackson [this message]
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2001-03-12 20:54 ` Martin Hicks
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