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From: Mike D <d01f1n@yahoo.com>
To: "S. Aeschbacher" <s.aeschbacher@bturtle.ch>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: cable modem connection problem
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 23:17:24 +0000
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Stefan,

could you (if it's not too much hassle) mail me the details of setting that 
cron job up - as an interim solution. Hopefully we'll get a better one of 
this list soon!

Thanks in advance,

Mike

On Thursday 06 December 2001 1:57 pm, S. Aeschbacher wrote:
> Hi
> I experienced similar problems here in Switzerland. It happend with
> FreeBSD as well
> as with OpenBSD routers. A solution I found is deleting the arp table
> entry of the
> default router of the cable modem provider (as a cron job).
> I did not investigate the source of the problem. Anyone got any clues?
>
> Stefan
>
> Mike D wrote:
> > I have a set up where my FreeBSD 4.4 box is acting as a firewall and
> > gateway between a cable modem on xl1 and my home net on xl0.
> >
> > I have a pretty tight rules list and don't have that many procs running
> > (ipfw, natd, mysql, tomcat - that's it!)
> >
> > It seems that after approx 10 hours the connection REALLY slows down,
> > most connection attempts on other ports (e.g. 110) time out and I have to
> > reboot the box. After the reboot everything is back to normal.
> >
> > If you have *any* thoughts at all as to what this could be - please let
> > me know, I'm getting pretty desperate.
> >
> > many thanks in advance!
> >
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