On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 10:14:55AM +0200, Thomas Berge wrote:
> Someone wrote:
> >Is this the entire trace? (I.E. there are *really* no incoming packets).
>
> Yep! No incoming packets at all. Even when the line is up, no replys to the
> FIN's are made from the other side.
>
> >If so, it looks like there are some half-closed tcp sessions (two to be
> >exact) between agder and the two web sites. The mac is trying to
> >terminate the TCP/IP session with a FIN (the F), but the servers have
> >long since forgotten about the session. Actually, they should probably
> >send a RST or something for a bogus FIN to close things out.
Try
echo 5 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr
if you have 2.0.34 or later (2.1 doesn't
have this, mail me for a patch). See
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/ip_dynaddr.txt
I have some reports that there are sites that don't respond
right to this trick, particularly search engines. That might
be reason enough to block those sites with ipfwadm :-/.
--
Erik Corry
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