On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 10:52:50PM -0400, Joe Reed wrote:

> 4) reinstalled windoze 2k on the machine that would not connect

Hehe ;-)

> i'm confused.  i'm thinking about wiping the machine and starting with 
> something really current off of releng.netbsd.org to see if a newer version 
> will fix something.  but that seems very windoze-ish.  does anyone have any 
> other ideas as to the cause or a solution to this problem?

Well, installing the official 1.6 release would not hurt, but I'd be suprised
if it would fix your problem.

Do your ipf rules block fragments? Does a tcpdump on the outside (raw ethernet)
interface used by pppoe show the data from the web sites arriving? Does a
tcpdump on the inside interface still show them?

Martin