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Date:      Tue, 8 May 2001 15:12:59 -0400
From:      James Snow <snow@teardrop.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   ipfw issues with large packet counts?
Message-ID:  <20010508151240.C60585@teardrop.org>

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Does this ring any bells for anyone?

I have a 4.2-S box running in transparent bridging mode (options BRIDGE
and options IPSTEALTH). This has worked marvelously for the last 65
days.

Today, however, we began to get complaints that our website was loading
very slowly. We poked and prodded and were able to reproduce this via
lynx, w3m and telnet on remote shells. A simple 'GET /' did indeed seem
to hang or just plain die without returning any data. But from our
workstations inside the firewall, things seemed peachy.

On a whim, I reset the counters in ipfw and the problem ceased.
Customers were happy again and I was more puzzled than ever.

Are there any known issues with large (101859482388, AKA one hundred one
billion, eight hundred fifty-nine million, four hundred eighty-two 
thousand, three hundred eighty-eight) packet counts in ipfw?

Any input would be appreciated.


Thanks in advance,
-Snow

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