Re: [pmfirewall] Masquerading & cookies ?

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From: Alexandre Gravel (gravel@soundspeedmovie.com)
Date: Wed Jul 19 2000 - 06:05:06 PDT


I was really out of this one. Nothing related to cookies or things like
that. This was a classic MTU problem between a Linux system and a Windows
system. Packets that could not be fragmented had to be and it hung the
transfer. I was using an implementation of pppoe for my ADSL connection
that did not work well with Win/Linux networks.

I installed the RoaringPenguin (http://www.roaringpenguin.com) distribution
of pppoe and it now works like a charm.

At 16:03 00-07-18 -0400, you wrote:

>Just an idea:
>Firstly, I don't think cookies are the problem. However, cookies
>are more likely to be used on dynamic sites, where pages are
>generated on the fly. These sites have a hard time taking
>advantage of the 'keep alive' machanism of HTTP. Keep alive
>will open one connection and use it for multiple pages. Without
>keep alive, you have to start a new connection each time.
>Could it be that these additional requests are causing
>the confusion? Maybe a different ipchains timing setting
>for port 80 or something along these lines would help?
>
>BTW: If you just click 'reload', will the page come up?
>
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>On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Alexandre Gravel wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I posted earlier with a problem I am having with web transfers and hung
> > connections.
> >
> > I just noticed that most connections that use cookies will hang. This
> means
> > that I can connect and surf websites that do not use cookies, but not
> those
> > that have them. And I am sure this problem is related to masquerading and
> > not my browser since if I connect my box dorectly to ADSL, no problems
> occur.
> >
> > Any ideas ?
> >
> > Alexandre Gravel
> >
> >
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