my money's on content filtering by your upstream. did this ever work? I wonder if this is a spillover from last weekend's port 1434 (saphire) attacks. could be that some upstream engineer started filtering everything Microsoft to stop network overload.
""Charles Riley"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I ran across a strange problem with one of our POPs the other day, and am in > the process of researching/troubleshooting it. We have a configuration > something like this: > > > "Internet"-------2500-------AS5300-------D/U Users > > Not shown is a LAN connected to the 2nd Ethernet on the 2500. All > connections to the shared Ethernet are via a Kmart bluelight special hub. > The connection to the Internet is a T-1 FR. Neither the 2500 nor the T-1 is > anywhere close to being overloaded. > > We are not doing any content filtering, nor have any access lists been > applied, nor are any sites blocked. > > The connection works great...email, web browsing, etc. all work just fine. > The only problem is that users can only download UNIX and Mac flavored > files, but not anything that smacks of Windows. For example, they can down > the .gz/tar and .sft files for a SSH client for example, but can not > download its .exe or .zip counterpart for Windows! Take the same .exe and > .zip file, and rename it with a UNIX or Mac filename extension, and you can > download it. > > Surprisingly enough, the problem does not lie with the users. I took a > "clean" laptop to the site, and encountered the same results. > > Has anyone ever experienced a problem like this? Could this be a bug in the > IOS on the 2500? Any suggestions would be welcome. > > > TIA, > > Charles Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=62163&t=62163 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]