Re: route table behind router

2011-02-15 Thread Mike McClain
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:48:53AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 14 feb 11, 18:34:01, Mike McClain wrote: > > >From this I take it you think ecn should be set to 1? > > http://www.frozentux.net/ipsysctl-tutorial/chunkyhtml/tcpvariables.html Thanks Andrei, I'll take a look. Mike -- Satis

Re: route table behind router

2011-02-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 14 feb 11, 18:34:01, Mike McClain wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:49:13PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > According to a quick search seems to imply that a firewall or a router > > along the way is the culprit. If you are lucky it's the router and a > > firmware upgrade might solve th

Re: route table behind router

2011-02-14 Thread Mike McClain
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:49:13PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > According to a quick search seems to imply that a firewall or a router > along the way is the culprit. If you are lucky it's the router and a > firmware upgrade might solve the problem. >From this I take it you think ecn should b

Re: route table behind router

2011-02-13 Thread Mike McClain
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 02:18:37AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > To get this done automatically at boot, edit /etc/sysctl.conf and add the > line: > net.ipv4.tcp_ecn = 0 Done and thank you, Mike -- Satisfied user of Linux since 1997. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.a

Re: route table behind router [ solved ]

2011-02-13 Thread Mike McClain
To recap: It started with me thinking I had a problem with my routing table. The setup is like so: cox cable-NetGear routerWindows box \--Debian box I can access the windows box through the router via smbclient. Even with IPtables that ar

Re: route table behind router

2011-02-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 12 feb 11, 23:04:59, Mike McClain wrote: > > root@/deb40a:~> echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn > now fetchmail works and I can get urls in firefox According to a quick search seems to imply that a firewall or a router along the way is the culprit. If you are lucky it's the router an

Re: route table behind router

2011-02-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110213070459.GA4674@playground>, Mike McClain wrote: >root@/deb40a:~> echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn >now fetchmail works and I can get urls in firefox To get this done automatically at boot, edit /etc/sysctl.conf and add the line: net.ipv4.tcp_ecn = 0 -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Re: route table behind router

2011-02-12 Thread Mike McClain
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:45:39PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > At this point, I have two ideas : either a problem with TCP connections > or specifically with HTTP connections. I would first try to connect to > other TCP-based services such as SMTP, POP3, FTP... If it fails too, > then the p

Re: route table behind router

2011-02-12 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:16:56 -0800, Mike McClain wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:57:17PM +, Camale?n wrote: >> >> Some cable providers (at least in Spain) tweak their cable modems to >> allow only one computer to browse the web (by means of "filters" that >> restrict the access to only on

Re: route table behind router

2011-02-12 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Andrei Popescu a écrit : > On Vi, 11 feb 11, 19:20:40, Mike McClain wrote: >> root@/deb40a:~> wget -v google.com >> --16:28:14-- http://google.com/ >>=> `google.com/index.html' >> Resolving google.com... 74.125.227.20, 74.125.227.16, 74.125.227.17, ... >> Connecting to google.com[74.12

Re: route table behind router

2011-02-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 11 feb 11, 19:20:40, Mike McClain wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 09:02:32PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Jo, 10 feb 11, 10:12:30, Mike McClain wrote: > > > I've done something to keep browsers that connect just fine via ppp > > > from connecting via eth0. > > > Thoughts? > > > > No

Re: route table behind router

2011-02-11 Thread Mike McClain
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 09:02:32PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Jo, 10 feb 11, 10:12:30, Mike McClain wrote: > > I've done something to keep browsers that connect just fine via ppp > > from connecting via eth0. > > Thoughts? > > No, but maybe the output of 'host google.com' and 'wget google.c

Re: route table behind router

2011-02-11 Thread Mike McClain
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:57:17PM +, Camale?n wrote: > > Some cable providers (at least in Spain) tweak their cable modems to > allow only one computer to browse the web (by means of "filters" that > restrict the access to only one MAC address). To avoid this, there are > routers that can

Re: route table behind router

2011-02-11 Thread Mike McClain
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 08:06:07PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Mike McClain a ?crit : > > > > I've done something to keep browsers that connect just fine via ppp > > from connecting via eth0. > > Thoughts? > > An HTTP proxy setting ? > That was rather common with dialup connections. I had to

Re: route table behind router

2011-02-11 Thread Mike McClain
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 09:51:48AM +, Chris Davies wrote: > Mike McClain wrote: > > I've done something to keep browsers that connect just fine via ppp > > from connecting via eth0. > > File > Work offline (or the equivalent) isn't set, is it? > Chris No but thanks for the thought. Mike --

Re: route table behind router

2011-02-11 Thread Chris Davies
Mike McClain wrote: > I've done something to keep browsers that connect just fine via ppp > from connecting via eth0. File > Work offline (or the equivalent) isn't set, is it? Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: route table behind router

2011-02-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Mike McClain a écrit : > > I've done something to keep browsers that connect just fine via ppp > from connecting via eth0. > Thoughts? An HTTP proxy setting ? That was rather common with dialup connections. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: route table behind router

2011-02-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 10 feb 11, 10:12:30, Mike McClain wrote: > I've done something to keep browsers that connect just fine via ppp > from connecting via eth0. > Thoughts? No, but maybe the output of 'host google.com' and 'wget google.com' can help diagnose. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debi

Re: route table behind router

2011-02-10 Thread Mike McClain
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:32:42PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mi, 09 feb 11, 15:27:48, Mike McClain wrote: > > [snip] > > Here is what I'd do to try troubleshooting this: > - ping some IP on the internet (8.8.8.8 is one of Google's DNS servers) > If all this works try 'ping google.com' to

Re: route table behind router

2011-02-10 Thread Mike McClain
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:21:16AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Hello, > > Mike McClain a ?crit : > > > > I can access the windows box through the router via smbclient. > > Even with IPtables that are ACCEPT, ACCEPT, ACCEPT, ... neither lynx > > or Firefox can access the inet though they c

Re: route table behind router

2011-02-10 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:27:48 -0800, Mike McClain wrote: (...) > Windows has no problem but the Debian box can still only see the net > via the phone modem and dialup. (...) Just an additional note on this. Some cable providers (at least in Spain) tweak their cable modems to allow only on

Re: route table behind router

2011-02-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 09 feb 11, 15:27:48, Mike McClain wrote: [snip] Here is what I'd do to try troubleshooting this: - ping internal ip of the router (192.168.1.1) - ping external ip of the router (you find it somewhere in its status page) - ping the router's default gateway and its DNS servers (also from

Re: route table behind router

2011-02-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Mike McClain a écrit : > > I can access the windows box through the router via smbclient. > Even with IPtables that are ACCEPT, ACCEPT, ACCEPT, ... neither lynx > or Firefox can access the inet though they can access the router. Web browers are poor tools when it comes to check IP co

route table behind router

2011-02-09 Thread Mike McClain
After a decade of dialup So Cal. Cox finally made me an offer I couldn't refuse. I've switched but can't connect on my Debian box. I've spent the last two weeks reading man pages, HOWTOs, searching the web and Deb user list archives but still don't get it. The setup is like so: cox cable-