remote access failing . . .

From: John Williams (williamj_at_seawindow.com)
Date: 06/28/05 

Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 07:33:42 GMT

I've recently set up an OpenBSD 3.7 router and for the most part
everything is working fine -- with the exception of being able
to establish a remote connection to the gateway from external sites.

I'm pretty sure that the problem is with the OpenBSD configuration
because when I roll my router configuration back to its previous
FreeBSD configuration, I'm able to establish a remote connection
from external sites with no problem.

When the OpenBSD box is up and I run traceroute from an externl site,
the trace halts at a router (on the Verizon network) one hop away
from connecting to my network segment. I've verified this by
running a traceroute from the FreeBSD box and the traceroute traces
to my FreeBSD gateway host with no problem.

Could the hung OpenBSD trace have to do with the MTU/MSS settings?

Has anyone else encountered this problem?

Any suggestions for a workaround would be quite welcome.

Thanks in advance.

John Williams 

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E-mail: williamj@bellatlantic.net
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