From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 27 15:37: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp017.mail.yahoo.com (smtp017.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 75D8037B423 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 15:36:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mattapayne@yahoo.com) Received: from cr990489-a.lndn1.on.wave.home.com (HELO mojo.myftp.org) (24.43.85.202) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Apr 2001 22:36:55 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: matt payne Reply-To: mattapayne@yahoo.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: firewall/natd box dropping connection? Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 18:39:01 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01042718390100.08139@mojo.myftp.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I've got an AMD K6-2-300 with 32 megs of RAM running FBSD 4.3-Release. It's acting as the gateway computer to the internet for my small home LAN. The ISP is rogers@home :(. I'm using ipfirewall and natd to provide the connection to the rest of the computers. The firewall is set to "open" at the moment (I'll set the rules when I have a little spare time), with the default rc.firewall configuration. Rogers uses DHCP, but my ip, etc. are (or seem to be) static. The gateway box has 2 NICs, one to the ouside, one to the LAN. The problem is that it keeps dropping the connection. This usually occurs every 6 - 20 hours or so. The strange thing is that the only way to get it back is to shut the computer ond the cable modem down, then restart. Then everything is back to normal until it happens again. Anyone else experienced this? Any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated. Matt _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message