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manuel <kaos@××××××××××××.com> posted 49142617.3060802@××××××××××××.com, |
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excerpted below, on Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:27:19 +0100: |
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> Everything seems to be ok but I sill can't connect to the internet! I've |
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> two Macintosh too in my home net with static ip addresses assigned (both |
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> working!) and I usually use Samba to comunicate beetween them and my |
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> gentoo box. When i'm using static IP on my gentoo box it becomes no more |
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> available on the net, but I can connect from it to the other cmptrs |
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> using Ftp! |
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> I'm really getting mad..... |
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You aren't per chance running kernel 2.6.27 on the bad partition, are |
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you? 2.6.27.2 (IIRC) had a fix for TCP option ordering. The relevant |
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RFC says option ordering doesn't matter, but apparently with some broken |
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routers it does. They expect a particular ordering, and break (as in, |
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refuse to pass the packet) if two different options get reversed. |
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2.6.26 (and previous, along with all 2.6.26.x updates) used the old code |
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with the accepted (because that's what MS does apparently, and that's |
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what they tested) ordering. 2.6.27 changed the ordering. The defining |
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RFC says it shouldn't matter, but it does to these broken routers. |
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2.6.27.2 (I believe it was) includes a patch returning the order to what |
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it was before, so again, shouldn't be affected. |
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I have no idea what those upstream version numbers correspond to for the |
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Gentoo kernel sources package, as I download and compile the mainline |
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kernel.org kernel directly, but if you've updated to 2.6.27, it's quite |
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possible you got the bad update on the one partition, and an either newer |
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or older unaffected version on the other. The pattern described, being |
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able to see the other machines on your LAN but not get to the Internet |
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thru the router, would exactly fit, if you're router's an affected model, |
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anyway. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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