[geeks] OS X Software Update issues

[Mike Hebel]

On Sunday, August 10, 2003, at 01:09 AM, Sandwich Maker wrote:

> "From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
> "
> "On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 03:07:10PM -0500, Mike Hebel wrote:
> "> Is anybody else having problems with OS X 10.2.6 and Software Update
> "> behind a firewall?  It works fine outside the firewall but not 
> behind
> "> it.
> "> Anybody have a port number that I need to open to make this work?
> "
> "Why would you need an *incoming* port number?  Its a client-side 
> program.
> "I run a G4 w/10.2.6 behind a PIX with *no* incoming ports open from 
> the
> "outside, and it works fine..
>
> anyone else here running brickhouse on osx?  afaik it appears to be a
> front panel for a hidden osx fw ability.
>
> data point: i have my mother's imac set up with this blocking all
> incoming, since 10.0.4, and update works fine.

The problem turned out to be MTU mis-match between the PPOE on the 
router and the standard ethernet interfaces.  Once I set the interfaces 
to an MTU of 1492 _not_ 1500 it all worked fine.

Mike Hebel

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