hello all

i have a little problem and no idea where to start from..

my network is like this: cable modem > ----LAN wire---- eth0 fedora core 3 eth1 -- LAN wire--- windows xp machine.

everything worked fine untill a power failure that lasted for 30 mins or so.. ups went empty so linux machine rebooted. when everything was back to normal, win xp machine could not complete http requests or whatever they are. i`ll give you and example. in a IM chat window in yahoo messenger, when you click games for example, it pops up a menu, which is http, it is downloaded from somewhere from yahoo servers. when I click games, it does nothing. same with audibles menus, file transfer and so on.
also, live stream with winamp doesn`t work either. it gives a could not connect error
another example, if you know Steam. in the monitor window it shows a banner from the content server. well.. that space is a blank white. no banner was downloaded.

any ideas?

thank you

well
did you try running some pcap applications like ethereal on the linux box to see what packages are being sent?

btw how did you bridge from eth0 to eth1 iptables with ipforwarding and NAT or bridge tools?

ethereal runs under x.. and i don`t have x, i don`t even have a monitor on linux

it was done with iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j SNAT --to-source my.ext.ip

you can use tcpdump or tethereal (believe thats the correct spelling for that)
tethereal is a txt only version of ethereal.

Can you access the web without problems from the linux box (using something like lynx perhaps)

slightly stupid question so excuse for asking it
did you ever reboot the linux machine since you managed to get the routing configured?
(what does iptables -L give you) {just a hinch but I have seen much in my days}

i can access the web without problems using lynx and elinks from the linux box.

i thought the firewall was the problem, so i restarted iptables and rebooted the box.

iptables -L :

Chain INPUT (policy DROP)
target prot opt source destination

Chain FORWARD (policy DROP)
target prot opt source destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy DROP)
target prot opt source destination

the only thing in iptables is NAT

i have tethereal installed but i`m not sure what i`m looking for .. or how to use it, for that matter..

thank you anyway for your time

My hunch actually was it that the tables were not saved and so after the involentary reboot your rule about routing would be no more.
(sorry is 2am here I'll come back later after I slept over it)

... to be continued

up

what did you do?
(was I perhaps right?)

nothing.. just brought the topic up

it`s not the tables because i`ve tryed the firewall it was on before the reboot, i`ve tryed no tables, just -t nat, and nothing works..

so if it`s not iptables, what could it be?

help?