HELP!

I am using PPPD demand and ipchains MASQ to connect my home network to a dialup. Any suitable packet will bring the line up bu then will wait forever(ish) for the reply. If I HUP the process and start again, it's fine - masquerading and all !!!

I am starting the masquerading from init.d before enabling packet forwarding. Should I be using ipchains -P forward -j DENY at startup, then ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j MASQ in /etc/ppp/ip-up?

Any suggestions?

Two thoughts -- first, there's a chance some portion of your application is timing out before it gets a chance to receive data. Last time I heard, modems still aren't the fastest connection makers. But, assuming that's not happening...

If you're using masquerading, then it sounds like you're trying to share the modem connection w/ multiple clients behind your dialup server.

Before you try all that, try just using the dialup server by itself. You shouldn't need any ipchain rules for it

If you can't connect out correctly from the server, it's probably not going to work from the remote workstations either...

After you *clear*any firewall rules at the console (READ -- NO FIREWALL!):

ipchains -F
ipchains -P input ACCEPT
ipchains -P output ACCEPT
ipchains -P forward DENY

Try to connect to a known working public service (www/ftp) from your console and see what happens.

Jon

Everything works fine from the console, that's why I assumed it must be ipchains.

Anyhoo, the whole box is in need of attention; i plugged in the rest of my home machines - win9x etc and they all dropped out to BSOD!!! - methinks there's a few badly formed packets flying around. Would like to run everything on linux but GF too used to Mr. Gates' handywork.

you need to setup the default gateway, dns, and ip address on the clients.


the rule for masq is ok
ipchains -P forward -j DENY
ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j MASQ

and you need this to run somewhere if it's not a 1 it will not work

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward