Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 16:00:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Danny McQuade <dmcquade@techie.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: DSL + NAT Probs Message-ID: <385235565.964209608969.JavaMail.root@web443-mc.mail.com>
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Hi. I recently got Bell Atlantic Infospeed DSL service installed in my home and I got PPPoE working great under FreeBSD 4.0. From the FreeBSD machine it's self, PPPoE is flawless and I can take full advantage of the DSL line. Before this I was using NAT with a dial-up connection, and that worked great for connecting the other machines on my home LAN to the internet. Now, however, I am finding some real problems with connecting to the internet from a machine other than the FreeBSD box directly connected to the DSL modem. It seems that I can connect to a number of random hosts/network services. For example, the only websites I was able to connect to from my internal FreeBSD box were www.rootshell.com & www.earthlink.net. The other sites I tried would either be uncontactable, or netscape would just sit there displaying 'Transfering data' in the status bar. I seem to be able to connect to any machine's SMTP server without trouble. This problem is really driving me nuts, because I first I thought there was a bandwidth problem on the NAT server, but while exploring the rootshell site I was able to download and view very large text files at DSL speeds. As I said, I am running FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE on the NAT server, using PPPoE to connect via the DSL modem. I have set 'gateway_enable' to YES in rc.conf, and I have enabled an 'open' firewall as well. Any suggestions regarding this matter would be highly appreciated. Thank you in advance. Danny McQuade dmcquade@techie.com ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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