> 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. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fuzzy Fox) || "Nothing takes the taste out of peanut > sometimes known as David DeSimone || butter quite like unrequited love." > http://www.dallas.net/~fox/ || -- Charlie Brown _______________________________________________ Masq maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tiffany.indyramp.com/mailman/listinfo/masq Admin requests can be handled by web (above) or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
