From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 21 13:55:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ct980320-b.blmngtn1.in.home.com (ct980320-b.blmngtn1.in.home.com [65.8.207.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A97437B405 for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 13:55:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mikes@localhost) by ct980320-b.blmngtn1.in.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.4) id f9LKtSA00833 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 15:55:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mikes) From: Mike Squires Message-Id: <200110212055.f9LKtSA00833@ct980320-b.blmngtn1.in.home.com> Subject: 4.4-STABLE + NAT + firewall = no @Home support To: FreeBSD questions Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 15:55:28 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL88 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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 I've been running FreeBSD as my NAT router and firewall for some time now. In August I started having connectivity problems (no Ethernet errors, just cable modem dropping link to head end) which has continued to this day through several 4.3 and 4.4 versions. @Home's Tier I support told me today that "no software firewall of any kind" is supported (no I'm not making this up) and that I'd have to switch to a "hub" (by which he meant a router/switch combination like the D-Link or Linksys products. He was unable to suggest a hardware firewall that was supported. Searching the @Home (athome.*) newsgroups didn't turn up any evidence of this policy. I'm running 4.4-STABLE with the required name in dhclient.conf and have no problems getting recognized. netstat -i never shows outbound errors (actually, with the Pro100+'s I've never seen errors on either the cable modem connection or the inside interface at 100Mbits full duplex). The built-in Web monitor to the cable modem shows no errors in its logs. Any ideas? MLS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message