From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 3 11:42:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [204.179.120.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D77E37B40A for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 11:42:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-relay.mac.com (smtp-relay01-en1 [10.13.10.224]) by smtpout.mac.com (8.12.1/8.10.2/1.0) with ESMTP id g53IgkO3029129 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 11:42:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from asmtp02.mac.com (asmtp02-qfe3 [10.13.10.66]) by smtp-relay.mac.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/1.0) with ESMTP id g53IgfrE010812 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 11:42:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([80.232.184.146]) by asmtp02.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GX57Z400.D98; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 11:42:40 -0700 Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 21:42:41 +0300 Subject: Re: connection drops after some time Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v481) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG To: Chris Fedde From: Roman Jasin In-Reply-To: <200206031834.g53IYsQW053525@fedde.littleton.co.us> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.481) 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 Thanks Chris, I guess that's what I'll have to do. You wouldn't believe how incompetent some ISPs can be here (Latvia). I probably spend hours on the phone trying to get them to check whether they have a timeout setup. Thanks for your help, -Roman On Monday, June 3, 2002, at 09:34 PM, Chris Fedde wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 20:06:39 +0300 Roman Jasin wrote: > +------------------ > | 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, > +------------------ > > 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. > > -- > Chris Fedde > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message