From: "Marc Sherman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I have a debian box running pppoe and ipmasq set up as > > a router/firewall for a home network. I have a Win98 > > machine behind the firewall. > > > > I can't read news on the win98 machine (using my ISPs > > news server, news1.sympatico.ca). I've tried a number > > of news clients (OE5, Free Agent, etc) on the win98 > > box - this seems to be a problem with the ipmasq, I > > think. I could read news on the Win98 machine fine > > when it was connected directly to the ADSL modem, > > running its own PPPOE driver.
It turns out that the MTU on the windows box was not set correctly - the default was too high for use with PPPOE. Manually setting it to 1400 worked. I'm not sure why this would only cause problems with news, but if I really wanted to know that much about windows networking, I wouldn't be installing debian on the other machine in the first place... :) - Marc
