[ale] Please help: BellSouth ADSL hangs with sendmail andup2date

[Michael Hirsch]

I don't have a solution to offer you, but as an alternative to up2date
you could use apt-get.  I've been using it on RH 7.3 and it works
great.  Since the entire protocol is http, and http seems to work for
you apt-get should work, too.

--Michael

On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 22:08, Chuck Mattern wrote:
> I've got one of the Alcatel Speed Touch Home units and have tried a number of
> Linux based firewalls. I started with a RH6.2/ipchains machine, when I found
> that up2date was hanging I tried upgrading to RH7.3/iptables, when this
> exhibited the same problem I tried implementing IPCop.  All have the same
> problem.  I decided to just cut over and update my machines manually, once I
> cut over I found that outbound sendmail is giving me trouble as well.  To
> ensure that the problem is not with my Linux configs I put a spare disk in the
> OBSD firewall on the AT&T side and installed IPCop with the same patches and
> setting as on the BellSouth side, it works flawlessly.  The speed seemed fine
> but I tested it just to be sure, on the AT&T side I get 1,431kbps download and
> 228kbps  and the BellSouth side is about 10% less (I had trouble getting some
> of the tests to complete as well).  Both the reading and the problems take
> place with an otherwise idle connection.



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