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Masquerading, dying, deubg and wrong ip#'s
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Wouters)
Sun Jun 16 17:30:46 1996
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 21:48:31 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Paul Wouters <paul@xtdnet.nl>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
I have been using a masquerading host to to hide our Evil[tm] windows
network from the world. I've been using fairly recent kernels and am now
using 2.0.0. From time to time, and especially when having a lot of
traffic through it (mostly netnews through netscape or ws_ftp's in pasv
mode) the masquerading host stops. I can still logon to it, and I can see
'network cable problem?' and ETHX: time our errors.
So, I tried defining the DEBUG statements for the masquerading stuff.
Apart from filling syslog, the host kept working (Well, kind of slower
with all the logging ;).
On the same network segment (at the 'safe' side of the masq.host) is an ipx
network that doesn't seem to think there is a cable problem.
So, I am thinking that for some reason, during busy network sessions, the
masquerading host can't keep up (It's only a 386dx, 8 megs ram and three
ethernet cards ( 100vg, and two etherworks pro's). But shouldn't it somehow
request the sender to slow down when it gets congested ?
Also, since 2.0.0 i sometimes get errors like :
MASQ: failed TCP/UDP checksum from aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
Should I junk our 386? Can anyone tell me they're successfully running a
masquerading host for a small office on a low-end machine ?
Any clues, hints or tips are appreciated,
Paul
