Weird WAN Access Problems

[moxieman]

I recently received my BubbaTwo and have been trying to get it to work as router / firewall for my network. When I have it plugged in, the only website I can get is the local Bubba admin site, but no external sites.

At first, I could not access anything else (via ping or otherwise) from my computer. Once I ssh'd into the server and su'd to root, I found that I could get to the WAN from the command line there. I performed an apt-get update and an apt-get dist-upgrade.

Now I can ping servers by name or ip address from the DOS command line on my computer, but i still can't go to any websites, either by name or ip (though I still can access bubba via web).

As soon as I switch back over to operation without the bubba, my web access is as normal. Any thoughts / suggestions? Thanks!

[moxieman]

Ok - After stepping away for a day and coming back, I did some more research and came up with the following:

http://forum.excito.net/viewtopic.php?t=1226

Turns out the mtu size issue was the problem I was having. I executed a

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ifconfig eth0 mtu 1500

from su and this solved the problem instantly. I then added the line to /etc/rc.local to keep the changes persistent after reboots.

Additionally, I want to say that the squid and squidGuard howto at

http://forum.excito.net/viewtopic.php?t=1315

was very well written and worked flawlessly (minus the couple typos I made) though you do not in fact need the <wan_ip> where suggested.

I also used shallalist's blacklists instead of the one suggested. They can be found at http://www.shallalist.de and are quite comprehensive.

This forum is full of lots of goodies so thanks to all who have been posting their solutions - though is it just me, or has this site been down an awful lot in the past couple days?

[Eek]

Hi

glad it worked for you.
could you post your blacklist solution in the how-to ?

thanks

Cheers
Eek