From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 3 11:34:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5589637B401 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 11:34:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g53IYsQW053525; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 12:34:54 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200206031834.g53IYsQW053525@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Roman Jasin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: connection drops after some time In-Reply-To: <44DAA887-7714-11D6-8349-00039345B18A@mac.com> From: Chris Fedde Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 12:34:54 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 20:06:39 +0300 Roman Jasin wrote: +------------------ | I guess the problem is my ISP, but I'm not sure about that. Plus those | guys aren't very helpful, so I'm hoping to fix it w/o them. It proved to | be the fastest path in the past. | | Here is what happening with my FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE box, running Apache, | sshd, and sendmail. It becomes inaccessible from outside world after | less than an hour if I'm not doing something on it. As soon as I access | something from it, whether via http or simple ping, it comes back | online and you can see it from the outside. It looks like it forgets | ISP's default router address. APM is not an issue simply because it's | disabled. I tried everything, even replacing the NIC and the box itself. | I'm on RadioDSL with BreezeAccess antenna, and like I said I don't have | problems with the accessing Internet. The problem is that the outside | world can't 'see' my server if I don't access the Internet from it for a | while. | Hope it makes sense. | | Any help is very appreciated, +------------------ An obvious work around is to put something that tickles the net into crontab: */20 * * * * ping -c 3 www.myisp.com > /dev/null 2>&1 But that does not address the "real" problem. I suspect that it is a policy issue on the ISP or layer2 provider that is timing out your DSL virtual circuit. -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message