SSL via netfilter

richard@iguana.co.nz richard@iguana.co.nz
Tue, 11 Jan 2000 12:36:23 +1100 (EST)


After some complaints from users, we managed to track down a really weird
thing. Netscape works perfectly on SSL balanced by a netfilter box,
however many (not all) revisions of IE behave erractically, with
everything from crashes to message boxes claiming not all page contents
are secure to refusing to load the page at all.

This affects both 40 and 128bit encryption pipes. I am currently looking
into it, hopefully have some packet dumps soon. This is just for anyone
who happens to be suffering from the same problem, and may not have
noticed, or in case someone has it set up and reliably working, in which
case I may be able to switch versions or something.

System: PIII-500
Kernel: 2.3.36
Version 0.1.14 (will test with 15 as soon as I can get the eepro driver
                working properly)

Hints or comments as always appreciated.

Richard.