From: Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Can reach some websites, can't reach others
Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 13:28:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200405221328.33189.Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040522115927.GA18767@localnet>
On Saturday 22 May 2004 12:59 pm, Sven Riedel wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm using a Linux 2.6.6 box as a masquerading firewall via dialup for a
> local network. From the internal network I can reach some websites (e.g.
> www.debian.org) but can't reach others (e.g. www.freshmeat.net). The
> unreachable sites _can_ be reached from the firewall-box itself though.
This sounds like an MSS / MTU mismatch poblem. Try doing a Google search for
"clamp MSS to MTU" - that should give you some pointers.
Can't offer specific advice myself since I've never experienced the problem,
but I've seen it here from others several times before.
Regards,
Antony.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-22 11:59 Can reach some websites, can't reach others Sven Riedel
2004-05-22 12:28 ` Antony Stone [this message]
2004-05-22 13:32 ` John A. Sullivan III
2004-05-22 13:52 ` Antony Stone
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