From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 13 17: 9:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from spring.thepond.com (spring.thepond.com [209.122.157.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53FAD37B66C for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 17:09:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (drunk@localhost) by spring.thepond.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA82790; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 20:23:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bpeisenbraun@yahoo.com) X-Authentication-Warning: spring.thepond.com: drunk owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 20:23:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Eisenbraun X-Sender: drunk@spring.thepond.com To: Doug Poland Cc: John Turner , ListServer FreeBSD Questions Subject: RE: Cable modem ISP keeps timing out In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Doug Poland wrote: > Well, my connection dropped out about 15 minutes after > the RoadRunner tech when home for the weekend. > > I tried doing an #ifconfig ed0 down but it gave me > this message... > > natd[2523]: failed to write packet back (Network is down) You've probably already checked this, but is it possible that your firewall is rejecting the DHCP clients attempt to renew your lease? IIRC, dhclient runs before IPFW and IPDIVERT start up, which might be why a reboot clears the problem? Unfortunately, I'm not in front of my firewall machine to check that. Just a thought. -ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message