NethServer Version:
NethServer release 6.8 Module:
Web Proxy
Traffic shaping
While in the past steam worked fine through the NethServer firewall, all of a sudden, I have to disable the web proxy and the traffic shaping modules to allow games to download. It blocks downloads to both desktop systems when they are on.
Ok, preliminary findings are that the Filter has been off. Therefore, my first conclusion would be that there is a bug that can allow the filter to be on even when it is disabled from the webgui.
However, I will get more information after I do some tests with steam. Thank you again.
Ok, I ran tests, but the results were the same as before I posted the issue. The Content filter is not enabled, and traffic shaping is off. What I didn’t mention is in my original post was that the steam will work for a an hour or two after the web proxy is enabled and then it ceases to function.
I was able to get a game downloaded, but the every subsequent game fails to download. Over the time I had the web proxy off I had zero failures, warnings, or issues.
Hi Walter, I’ve been trying this for the last days (transparent proxy, no cache), and tcpdump to capture packets.
Got the same message retrying the download of a ~14GB game (letting a few seconds between retries). The game downloaded fine without the proxy.
This happened once (with 2 consecutive retries), but after that all other steam downloads through proxy went fine (~100GB or more).
Unfortunetly I didn’t thought about tcpdump until it was too late, therefore no dump of failed download (not saying that I could interpret the dump but someone else might.)
Sorry, I know this does not help you much with the problem. Just in case, today I might give it another try.
@filippo_carletti, do you think a packet capture could help to discerne if it’s a proxy problem or a network one (steam servers, response delay…) ?