From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 18 13:00:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 016CD16A400 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:00:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nicvw@korbi.net) Received: from spool.korbitec.com (spool.korbitec.com [196.31.9.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4448F43D69 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:00:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nicvw@korbi.net) Received: from [10.4.2.7] (helo=Exchange.korbitec.int) by spool.korbitec.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1FVp5c-000H6Y-A6 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:13:52 +0200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:14:04 +0200 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Routing problem Thread-Index: AcZi2q24B76pcQRxRrGS8d9hFF4RNgABnnUg From: "Nicholas von Waltsleben" To: X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 10.4.2.7 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: nicvw@korbi.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on spool.korbitec.com); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: RE: Routing problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:00:50 -0000 In answer to my own question. When I disable the firewall on the server the routing issue is instantly resolved. However for 90% of the time the firewall runs without any apparent problems... I will start a new thread of conversation and ask my now firewall related problem. Sorry for my apparent thickness :) > Hi, > > I am running a 5.4 box as a gateway server / firewall / mail relay at > our company. Previously we had a 4.3-beta server which although > horribly outdated hardly ever gave us any problems. Since replacing it > with a Dell 850 and installing 5.4 I have experienced intermittent > routing issues. The box will stop routing traffic correctly (I have > included the output of a ping below). I initially thought that the box > was just dropping the packets but after running a trafshow I saw that > this was not the case.