AW: Windows to Linux - ping-bug?

[Florian Lagg]

> > 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...

I'll check this and post the results. Thanks!

 - 
Florian Lagg (http://www.lagg.at)