Windows to Linux - ping-bug?

[Guus Sliepen]

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:21:30PM +0200, Florian Lagg wrote:

> For UDP i have one more question:
> Thanks for your quick answer.
> I explicit forward TCP+UDP 655 from wan (office) to the supporter's laptop. 
> The traffic from inside the supporter's network is routed without
> limitation.
> Isn't that enough? Must I have an additional port forward from inside the
> supporters network even if there is no blocking router? Why is it working
> after one ping (so the connection should be OK)?

That's probably caused by a stateful firewall or NAT. Maybe your
iptables rules contain an INPUT or OUTPUT rule that block any packet
unless it is in state established,related? Or maybe the problem is at
the other end...

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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