From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 27 16:44:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cody.jharris.com (cody.jharris.com [205.238.128.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97D5737B422 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 16:44:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by cody.jharris.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f3S0rm260395; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 19:53:48 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 19:53:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Nick Rogness X-Sender: nick@cody.jharris.com To: matt payne Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: firewall/natd box dropping connection? In-Reply-To: <01042718390100.08139@mojo.myftp.org> 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, 27 Apr 2001, matt payne wrote: > 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. Maybe your lease is expiring and not renewing....Try to kill /sbin/dhclient and restart it...(Don't know if a HUP will do it or not) Maybe something wrong with the cable modem? Maybe heat related? Just some ideas. Nick Rogness - Keep on Routing in a Free World... "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message