[54940] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Stumper
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jeffrey.arnold)
Tue Jan 21 17:51:53 2003
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 17:35:41 -0500 (EST)
From: "jeffrey.arnold" <jba@analogue.net>
To: "Mark J. Scheller" <scheller@u1.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0301211644370.29449-100000@earth.u1.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Mark J. Scheller wrote:
:: Here's the particulars:
::
:: Users that have Verizon DSL and a Linksys cable/DSL router have
:: difficulties accessing sites on my network -- whether they are trying
:: with http, https, smtp, pop3, ssh, ftp, etc., etc. Oh, but pings
:: seem to be fine. Low latency, no loss. This is true even for access
:: to a server brought up in the DMZ, to keep the firewalls out of the
:: equation.
::
Have the user update their linksys firmware. I see this problem all the
time. Linksys soho gateways are notorious for their early firmware not
sending fragments with proper headers. Any acl that does not allow *all
frags* by default will deny their packets. There may be other issues as
well, but the firmware update tends to fix all of the problems.
-jba
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