Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:44:44 -0400 From: User & Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> To: Mark Hughes <mark@dvdnews.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stateful rules timeout on IPFW Message-ID: <20010718194444.D51074@localhost> In-Reply-To: <03c001c10fa5$a6af6ea0$0200a8c0@mark2>; from mark@dvdnews.co.uk on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 05:20:35PM %2B0100 References: <03c001c10fa5$a6af6ea0$0200a8c0@mark2>
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Checkout man sysctl and do a sysctl -a | more | grep "net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_*" Ian As it was put forth by Mark Hughes on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 05:20:35PM +0100... > Hi, > > I've just set up IPFW on my FreeBSD gateway box, and while we can sign in > to MSN Messenger from any of the internal windows clients, with no activity > the client gets signed out automatically after a period of time (althoguh > it doesn't tell you that you've been signed out, just no=one can see you > online...). > > I'm almost certain this is due to the dynamic rule on IPFW timing out, so, > is there any way of putting an increadibly long timeout value on the rules, > so this doesn't happen? I'm thinking something like 24 hours would be the > sort of thing I was looking at. This would mean of course that all dynamic > rules were open for that long (unless someone can thing of some way of > allowing just the MSN signin ones to remain with the others closing), but I > think I can cope with that. > > IS there any way of doing this? > > Thanks, > Mark > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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