routing problem

[marchino]

I'm installing a new gentoo machine, using my own gentoo box as a internet gateway. So i reconfigured my 2.4.20-gentoo-r1 kernel to support iptables and ip forwarding.

Note that I've a DSL connection on eth0 (via pppoe) and the second box is connected via eth1.

I've set up MASQUERADING for my ppp0 and the strange thing I cannot understand is that from my second box I can resolve IPs, ping and also do an emerge sync, but when I try to dl something via emerge nothing works. I've tried both http and ftp servers but same result:

[cyfred]

As a thought have you tried using one of the mirrors for distfiles that are around.
The ibiblio one usually does get rather conjested at times due to the large number of people using it.

http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml

[marchino]

I've solved the problem changing in file /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf

CLAMPMSS=1412

instead of

CLAMPMSS=no

Probably rsync generates shorter packets than ftp/http protocols and that was the reason it was working. Same story for ICMP/ping.

Bye!