DSL Troubles

[Condon Thomas A KPWA]

Thanks to all for the inputs last week on security of the DSL connection.

I am having some troubles getting the connection to function correctly, now.
I'm running SuSE 8.0, and had the personal firewall turned on.  That isn't
necessary with the Actiontec Gateway/Router/Firewall/modem, though, so I've
turned it off (and removed it from my init.d/rc.* directories so it won't be
started anymore).  But packets are not being processed correctly somewhere.
I can see traffic out and back in when I try to visit a web site (as TX/RX
on the ethernet port when I issue ifconfig).  The gateway seems to be set
correctly when I check the routes.  I can ping the gateway and get response.
I can ping one of my ISP's boxes, and get response back.  I can even ping my
old ISP (by name) and get response back (although it says "packet
filtered").  However, it times out on any web site I try to access with a
browser.  The ISP tech support guy went through all the setup stuff with me
and got it this far.  He says he can see the packets being delivered to my
machine (I opened it for SSH), but they are being filtered.  He also has
suggested "upgrading" to the new RH8.x (since he is familiar with that), but
I think of re-installing as a Windoze solution.

I've searched the SuSE knowledge base and found some related articles on
setting up firewalls and internal DSL modems, but not on setting up clients
to access a router/gateway.

Apologies for less than specific information, but the link at home won't let
me send email to ask this from the machine that has the problem (which was
also my home email access).

"ifconfig" shows proper IP and mask for the internal net, and increasing
transmission and reception packets and bytes when a browser attempts to
contact a URL.

"route" shows proper routing for default gateway (modem's IP, 0.0.0.0
netmask).

ISP is running PPPoA access.

I'd be very appreciative of any thoughts on areas I should look into for a
solution.


In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord,

Tom  :-})

Thomas A. Condon
Barbershop Bass Singer
Registered Linux User #154358
A Jester Unemployed