What is the OS you are running on the 3 operating systems? Is it FreeBSD also or something else?
Joe Gwozdecki Houston, TX ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 4:43 PM Subject: natd mostly working but not quite... > [note: please cc me in any replies as I am not currently subscribed to > freebsd-questions. Thank you.] > > I'm using a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE box as a gateway for my household > network (3 machines total). I'm using natd + ipfw + DHCP. It works > mostly as it should (i.e. the other two boxes are able to connect to the > internet as expected), but there are some inconsistencies. For example, > if I go to Yahoo! and look up a map, I get a "The connection was refused > while attempting to contact rd.yahoo.com" message when I try to zoom in. > This does not happen from the FreeBSD box itself (everything works > perfectly normally on this box). Also, those wonderful ads embedded in > many web pages do not come up due to similar "connection refused" > messages. This leads me to believe that something is not translating > but I'm not sure what it could be. I tried disabling the firewall > completely and that brought no change to this odd behavior. I tried > bypassing DHCP by setting everything statically, but the behavior was > still the same. > > At my last apartment, I was running FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE as the > firewall OS and everything worked just fine. Has something changed in > 4.7 that might cause this behavior? Or, could this just be an oddity > when dealing with AT&T Broadband (I had Sprint at the other place). > > I'm not sure what information might be required to try and > debug/diagnose this so more info is available upon request. Any and all > ideas will be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance. > > -Scott > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
