[oclug] Network Config Problem

[Trevor Curtis]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 09:24:50PM -0500, Dan Nagy wrote:
> From: Dan Nagy <dnagy at home.com>
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> To: oclug at lists.oclug.on.ca
> Subject: [oclug] Network Config Problem
> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 21:24:50 -0500
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The hard drive on our Linux firewall box died so I'm setting up the home
> network using Mandrake 7.2 on the firewall/gateway/cable modem machine.
> 
> News, mail and browsing work for all computers on the internal network.
> However I can't ping anything outside the Rogers network. I can ping the
> DNS, 24.2.9.33 and the router but everything else is unreachable.  
> 
> Its the same story if I ping from Linux. I can't ping anything except
> for the computers on the internal net and the Rogers DNS and router. 
> 
> Some internet games such as Asheron's Call do not work. They seem to
> connect to the appropriate server but then the game won't start and we
> get an error message about "unable to establish a connection". 
> 
> I've taken a look at ipmasq for ICMP but I'm not at all sure where to go
> with this. Any help/ideas appreciated.
> 
> Dan
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He he... you may have picked a bad day to do it.  Roger's DNS have
been flaky today. :-\   That may not be your problem, but I did call
Rogers and they confirmed there was a problem.

just a thought,
-- 
Trevor Curtis
http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~tcurtis
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