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Date:      Tue, 1 Dec 1998 22:16:11 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
Cc:        dillon@apollo.backplane.com, nate@mt.sri.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it
Subject:   Re: TCP bug
Message-ID:  <199812020516.WAA03722@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199812020245.VAA06152@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
References:  <199812020245.VAA06152@pcnet1.pcnet.com>

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> > In trying to track down why some boxes in my network can't connect to
> > certain WWW hosts, I determined that my FreeBSD is not routing the
> > packets for some reason.  It's receiving them, and the firewall code
> > *thinks* it's passing them on, but tcpdump doesn't see these packets go
> > out on the wire.
> 
> I've got a router with 4 interfaces, both public and private, ipfw
> and NATD, 2.2.7-stable and no problems.  I did have similar problems
> as you're describing, and it turned out that some of the systems on
> one network didn't have the correct netmasks set.

The strange thing is that 90% of the hosts on the net work.  It's those
remaining 10% that don't work for some reason.

(The masks appear to be set correctly though, else I wouldn't be able to
get any traffic to the boxes...)


Nate

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