My problem is a little different.
Everything doesn't come to a complete grinding halt.

As I said, I may have 5 messages queued.
2 will send fine, but the third will hang.
I'll delete that one from the queue, hit send again,
and the last two will go fine.

And while that mail message won't go out, I may be able to
telnet, or read news or whatnot.  It just seems like there
are some characters or something that aren't getting through.

Rog

Oh, yeah,
SORRY ABOUT THE HTML GARBAGE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE MESSAGE.
We use Outlook at work and there's no way to turn it off.
I hate micro$oft software!

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Evans [mailto:raisplin@rcn.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 1999 6:07 PM
To: Fischer, Roger; 'port-mac68k@netbsd.org'
Subject: Re: NAT not passing all characters?


On 4/6/99 7:31 PM, Fischer, Roger was rumored to have said...

I have noticed the same weirdness with NAT.  I am running NAT on a Quadra 
610 tied into the ethernet Network with my 8100 running 8.5.1 or 8.6b4 
(depending on which drive I boot from)

Everything will be going along fine and then all of a sudden packets from 
the 8100 out tothe net just quit.  I can do whatever I want from within 
BSD.  I don't know how to effectively restart my ethernet connection, so 
I reboot, then it all works fine, sometimes for a few minutes, other 
times for up to 5 days, there seems to be no real pattern here that I can 
discern.

Greg

>I'm running NAT on my Centris610/NetBSD 1.3.3 box, tied into
>an ethernet network with my G3 running MacOS 8.5
>
>Recently I seem to be having some problems where NetBSD won't
>pass data from my G3 onto the Net.
>
>Sometimes I'll que up 5 or 6 messages using Eudora, and go to
>send them.  The first 3 will go, and the fourth just sits there.
>I'll hit cancel, and hit send again, but that message won't go.
>
>If I kill NetBSD/PPP and then dial into my ISP from the G3 using
>FreePPP, the messages sail right on through.
>
>Additionally, my wife was browing the web recently.  Most pages
>were loading fine.  One page had links that she'd click on, and
>nothing would happen.  Other pages were fine.  We tried typing
>in the url and it wouldn't load the page.
>
>I hung up the NetBSD ppp linke and dialed in using FreePPP from
>MacOS, and those pages loaded fine.
>
>
>Should I be "escaping" some characters or something?  If so,
>what range of characters.  On the other hand, I don't remember
>having this problem before.  It's been a while since I used my
>MacBSD box as a gateway.
>
>thanks,
>Roger G. Fischer                    PanAmSat Corp.
>Email: rfischer@panamsat.com