From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 7 15:02:46 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBF0F16A4CE for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:02:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from post-22.mail.nl.demon.net (post-22.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88E2443D1F for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:02:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from aseed.demon.nl ([82.161.136.218]:10041 helo=mail.aseed.antenna.nl) by post-22.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CmvdV-000DHE-NS for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2005 15:02:45 +0000 Received: from http.aseed.antenna.nl (unknown [192.168.0.50]) by mail.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA51A1A9A7 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:02:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.0.111] (82-197-198-30.dsl.cambrium.nl [82.197.198.30]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by http.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 113263701E for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:02:45 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41DEA491.4090505@scii.nl> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:02:41 +0100 From: albi User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041228) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200501071452.j07EqQ2A031346@votris.mrdata.com> In-Reply-To: <200501071452.j07EqQ2A031346@votris.mrdata.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: network slows 1000x X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 15:02:46 -0000 Blake Freeburg wrote: > When a lot of traffic flows across the interface from internal to external networks, I find that the natd appears to get congested, making ping times to the next hop (still on my network) go from .1 ms to 1000s of ms. > > Rebooting fixes it ------- cut ----- > This happens once a day there abouts (depends on what's been moved between internal and external networks. i've seen a box with 2 NICs where 1 NIC needed a reboot every 2 or 3 days (replaced it when the problem was clear), i think the logfiles (on M0n0wall) mentioned corrupted memory on the NIC, so perhaps it's due to failure of one of your networkcards ?