On 27.05.2004 09:07 -0400, nicolas bussieres wrote:

>  have several pc's connected to a m0n0wall and we are using network
> management tools , but when 2 users on different pcs try to ping
> the same external ip address (216.109.117.205 , which is yahoo for
> exemple) , only one get get a responce , and it take a long while
> after he stops for the other to start pinging
> 
> is there a solutions ?

No. That's because ICMP doesn't use port numbers, and as such when
the reply from 216.109.117.205 comes in, ipnat doesn't know which LAN
host to send it to. Some NAT implementations try to be clever about
this, but ipnat (which is used in m0n0wall) isn't. I don't think this
is a big restriction, though... There are no such problems with TCP
or UDP.

- Manuel