Subj : Re: http connection problem???
To   : comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
From : =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=
Date : Tue Jun 01 2004 04:09 pm

Norris@drippy.freeserve.co.uk (Norris) writes:

> Hi, I recently installed Mandrake 9.2 (yes, I know 10 is out, I
> already had the CDs for 9.2)
> When I got into X I set up my internet connection (I have 2 PCs, one
> runs Win XP all the time, and has Wingate installed with NAT and ENS
> ennabled. I get my internet on the client through the NAT) so I set
> the gateway PC to 192.168.0.1 and everything else as normal. I access
> the internet perfectly in WinXP with these settings, but in Mandrake I
> can only access websites for a certain ammount of time, usually less
> than 5 minutes... Then I can suddenly no-longer get to them (Firefox
> just says "resolving www.dlashdot.org" until it times out.) This
> happens in Mozilla, Konquerer and Galeon. In KDE and Gnome. Can anyone
> help me out?
>
> The wierd thing, is that IRC and MSN work constantly. And resetting
> the Wingate Engine on the server PC allows me to connect again.

Seems like a problem with wingate rather than the linux machine.

> Furthermore, it's onlt specific to the website, if I move on to
> another website, it will connect... Though if I return to the original
> website (or another that I've been on more than 5 minutes ago, it
> weon't connect again.

It sounds like it could be a problem with connection tracking in the
windows machine, which makes it off-topic here.

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Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se

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