perhaps this is similar to the yahoo login problem experienced by users of squid. i think it has something to do with the "do not defragment" bit in the TCP header. i assume you mean web login. i assume yahoo messenger logins still work as advertised.
On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 00:04:26 +0800, Paul Patrick Carpio Prantilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Warm Greetings, > > Yesterday, I upgraded an ancient 2.4.20 kernel to 2.4.28 on a linux > router running debian for a small home network. Because the box in > question functions as a router, I added all sorts of networking options > in the config like IP: Advanced Router and QoS (I wanted to try out HTB > and CBQ) that weren't present in the old 2.4.20 config. > > After setting it up, the network was up and going as usual. However, I > noticed something strange...none of the clients connected to the linux > router could access some login sites like http://mail.yahoo.com and > hotmail.com. Gmail functions perfectly though, and I can access all > these sites from the linux box itself. From tracerouting and pinging, I > can see however that packets coming from the network clients are indeed > reaching mail.yahoo.com. After concluding that I may be dropping the > return packets, I tried doing > > echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter > > ..and to all rp_filters under /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf, but it didn't > work. I also tried flushing all the iptables rules and putting basic > NAT/forwarding functionality, still to no avail. > > I finally recompiled the kernel after configuring back the networking > options to reflect what it was like in the old 2.4.20 kernel. However, I > did leave all the netfilter options compiled as modules. Using this > kernel however didn't change anything...clients still can't log in > yahoo.com and hotmail.com. > > I'm pretty stumped. Does anyone here know what's going on? Perhaps I'm > looking in the wrong places? Apologies if this was tackled before. > Thanks and more power. > > -Paul Patrick Carpio Prantilla > > ================================== > The statement below is false. > The statement above is true. > ================================== > -- > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > . > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie > -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
