Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 12:34:54 -0600 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Roman Jasin <cityangels@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: connection drops after some time Message-ID: <200206031834.g53IYsQW053525@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <44DAA887-7714-11D6-8349-00039345B18A@mac.com>
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On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 20:06:39 +0300 Roman Jasin wrote:
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| 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,
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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.
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Chris Fedde
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