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From: Michel Bouissou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Erik Corry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Steve Christall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 4:19 AM
Subject: Re: First packets lost [Was: windows bringing up the link]
[...]
> - Anyway, the machine that requested the web page some seconds before the
> link is up will get no answer, and timeout, but much later.
[...]
> I would appreciate very much to know:
> - Whether somebody in the list could personnally succeed in getting a
> masquerading diald config with dynamic IP addresses where the first packet
> does *not* get lost,
> - And to get a copy of the main involved config files, of such a working
> config.
I am running IPMasq and diald on my setup. There seems to be a small delay
between the modem connection and when my web traffic starts moving, but it's
only about 3 seconds or so, and the web page request does not time out.
I thought I read somewhere that it's a bad idea to have Masqerading active
all the time when the analog connection is not always up, and the
recommended practice was to execute the ipchains firewalling commands in
ip-up rather than rc.firewall. Then to undo those commands in ip-down.
It seems to work fine for me. Forwarding and ip_dynaddr kept enabled at all
times, but the actual masqerading is not in effect until after a link comes
up. Not sure if it really matters, but the setup works for me.
Hope this was helpful...
Daniel Ratzlaff (Norby)
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