> Curtis Stanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > When I do a ping on the client box, I can see the tx/rx lights
> > flashing on the ADSL modem at regular ping intervals but the response
> > never makes it back to the client.
> 
> It "never" makes it back?  Your subject says "intermittent connections,"
> so does it never work, or does it sometimes work, sometimes not?  When
> it does work, what's different from when it doesn't?
> 

What I mean by intermittent is that sometimes I get one ping response back
before it stops. Not very often though. Also, when I ftp, I can get as far as
the login before it quits responding. I can't even ping the DSL modem. The
strange thing is that my Win 98 client works great using the same linux box as
the gateway.

> > The DNS lookup works but no ping responses are received.
> 
> Is your kernel compiled with the option to masquerade ICMP?  You'll
> never see a ping response unless this is so.

Yes.

> 
> > The MTU on all interfaces (both on the masq box and the one on the
> > client box) are set to 1500.
> 
> Then you are not seeing the MTU problem.
> 
> > When I do an ftp, I get to the login, type "anonymous" and it never
> > returns to ask for a password.
> 
> Use "ftp -d -v" to show verbose information.  See where the protocol
> breaks down.
> 
> Can you just "telnet" to a site?  Does it work, or not?
> 

OK, I'll try both of these when I get home. I assumed my gateway box is setup
*almost* correctly since the Win 98 client works.

By the way, I'm using the 2.2.3 kernel using ipchains. Any known problem with
these versions?

> > Can the ADSL modem have its own MTU? I don't know how to get at it.
> 
> I don't know, but I doubt it.  You communicate with the DSL modem via
> ethernet, and the MTU for ethernet is 1500.
> 
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