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Re: Masquerading, dying, deubg and wrong ip#'s
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Mon Jun 17 05:28:02 1996
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: paul@xtdnet.nl (Paul Wouters)
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:36:58 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.960616212011.8496A-100000@bean.xtdnet.nl> from "Paul Wouters" at Jun 16, 96 09:48:31 pm
> 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.
That means the network driver is having bad problems with the cards for
some reasons, or a real cable fault. Does 1.2 make the fault vanish again
> 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 ?
It does, it just throws packets away.
> Also, since 2.0.0 i sometimes get errors like :
> MASQ: failed TCP/UDP checksum from aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
That in itself is ok. Thats a faulty frame from afar being dumped
