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From: Pascal Hambourg <pascal.mail@plouf.fr.eu.org>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Connection through gateway fails in a random basis
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 20:07:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44CE46FB.2020704@plouf.fr.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060731145348.779b4055.pedro.werneck@terra.com.br>

Hello,

Pedro Werneck a écrit :
>>
>>I can't answer your question but I can point out what looks like a 
>>serious error in your rules -- the firewall is wide open.  You should 
>>either change your default policy on the INPUT chain to DROP, or you 
>>should append a rule "-A INPUT -j DROP".
> 
> Yes... I know that. I changed it in the hope it would fix the problem

Did it ?

It seems that your connection uses PPPoE, so my first thought is the 
well-known MTU problem. What happens if you lower the MTU of you 
internal hosts below 1492 ?


  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-31 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-31  1:11 Connection through gateway fails in a random basis Pedro Werneck
2006-07-31 17:03 ` list user
2006-07-31 17:53   ` Pedro Werneck
2006-07-31 18:07     ` Pascal Hambourg [this message]
2006-07-31 19:22       ` Pedro Werneck

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