Networking question

[Dave Beach]

Thanks for the reply. The default gateway for the internal network is the
firewall box.

-----Original Message-----
From: netfilter-bounces at lists.netfilter.org
[mailto:netfilter-bounces at lists.netfilter.org] On Behalf Of Edmundo Carmona
Sent: December 24, 2005 1:59 PM
To: netfilter at lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Networking question

Probably there's no gateway in the XP box setup... or the gateway is plain
wrong.

Merry Xorg-mas to everyone around! ;-)

On 12/24/05, Dave Beach <drbeach at rogers.com> wrote:
>
> This is undoubtedly off-topic in oh-so-many ways; I'd be quite happy 
> to be redirected to another, more appropriate mailing list should 
> someone be so kind as to suggest one.
>
> Internal, home, private network, WinXP boxen and a Squid proxy, 
> connecting through an iptables box to my router and cable modem. 
> Everything works peachy.
>
> While trying to poke bittorrent holes through my iptables setup (see? 
> Some vague evidence of relevance), I encountered problems and decided 
> to take the proxy out of the picture. VERY much to my surprise, when I 
> reconfigured IE to not use the proxy (and configured iptables to allow 
> for a direct connection), I see no HTTP traffic whatsoever leaving the 
> XP box destined for the firewall. In fact, no TCP traffic either (all 
> traffic analysis done with ethereal on the XP box). I can ping to/from 
> the XP box, and see THAT via ethereal.
>
> I am considerably confused by this. My presumption was that IE would 
> just happily send HTTP traffic directly to the firewall, but this is 
> NOT the behaviour I'm seeing.
>
> I know it's Christmas Eve day, and I was out a bit late last night, 
> but there's clearly something VERY obvious I'm missing.
>
>
>