Re: [Shorewall-devel] http and smtp connections time out

[Tom E. <te...@sh...>]

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 04:56, Djebran Lezzoum wrote:
> I am running red hat 9 with shorewall 1.4.6b-1,
> Have noticed http and smtp connections time out to some hosts I have
> tried 
> to change tcp_ecn value but without results - the problem persist.
> 
> I am now forced to use ISP smtp server, and ISP http proxy server to
> reach some sites.

Is your connection to your ISP through some sort of PPP connection
(PPTP, PPPoE, etc.)? If so, you apparently overlooked the Setup Guide's
instructions to set CLAMPMSS=Yes in shorewall.conf.

-Tom
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