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Date:      Thu, 5 Mar 2009 14:04:29 +0100 (CET)
From:      "Joost Bekkers" <joost@jodocus.org>
To:        "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPFW and IPv6 TCP timeout problem
Message-ID:  <29230.62.12.14.25.1236258269.squirrel@jodocus.org>
In-Reply-To: <good54$65u$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <good54$65u$1@ger.gmane.org>

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On Thu, March 5, 2009 12:30, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It appears that IPFW drops dynamic (state-keeping) rules for idle IPv6
> TCP connections after a short (60 seconds by default) timeout. This of
> course creates problems for services like SSH and NFS. I've contacted
> Luigi Rizzo about it but he cannot help with the IPv6 part of the ipfw.
> His guess is that the part that should send keepalive ACK packets like
> ipfw does for IPv4 is broken or nonexistent for IPv6.
>
> Any takers? Should I file a PR?
>
>

You might want to check if kern/117234 is relevant here. I've got a
feeling this is the problem you're seeing.

The PR includes a patch, it just needs somebody to commit it.

good luck.

Joost.





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