From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 19 00:34:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AB8C16A4CE for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 00:34:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 407EB43D1D for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 00:34:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HTB00A6QOZKPL@smtp01.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:30:57 +0100 (MET) Received: from alex.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kruij557.speed.planet.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1J8UNT5001193; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:30:23 +0100 Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by alex.lan (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i1J8UNeE001192; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:30:23 +0100 Content-return: prohibited Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:30:23 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <20040219114657.431db5cc.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> To: Robert Storey Message-id: <20040219083023.GA995@alex.lan> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i References: <20040219114657.431db5cc.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> X-Authentication-warning: alex.lan: akruijff set sender to freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl using -f cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Win200 gateway blocking FBSD html? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:34:37 -0000 Dear Robert, I was wondering, does your mailer hava option to cut the text on or becore char 72? This is a bit difficult to read, but i can answer you question. Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/ On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 11:46:57AM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD client machine for a school. They have never used FBSD or even Linux, they are 100% Windows. They are interested in letting their students gain experience with non-Windows software. So I need to prove to them that FBSD can work, but I've run into a major obstacle. > > The client machines are connected to a switch, which is connected to a Windows 2000 gateway machine to access the Internet. I set up a FBSD client, and using dhcp it can find the network. I can ping the gateway machine, and even ping the local ISP. I can also use gftp to access some anonymous ftp sites (such as FreeBSD.org) though performance seems slow. > > The problem - I cannot access any web sites with http. Doesn't matter if I use Konqueror, Mozilla or Lynx. Yet, all the Windows machines on this network can browse the web (using Internet Explorer) without difficulty. > > I find this very peculiar. Just to be sure that I don't have a misconfigured firewall on the FBSD box, I installed FBSD on my laptop, plugged it into a different network - works fine, I can surf the web. Then I plug it into the school's network, and http doesn't work, but ping and ftp can reach the outside world (though again, it's slow). > > Is it somehow possible that the Windows gateway only allows Internet Explorer to work? Doesn't seem possible, but what do I know? All suggestions welcome. No a firewall doesn't know anything like that. It makes it choices based on IP, port and certain flags. There are two posibilties however. The first is that your DHCP gives you an IP that is blocked by the firewall. You could check this by using you laptop to steal one of the IP's of a known working client. The other option is that is a proxy server installed. That could explain the slow performance. A proxy server doesn't have the wisdom to block based on that kind of info. (Small change i am wrong here) I hope his answers you question. Please do a group reply if you have more question on this topic and i'll help you if i got the time. Best regards, Alex