Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 21:42:41 +0300 From: Roman Jasin <cityangels@mac.com> To: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: connection drops after some time Message-ID: <AF8538DE-7721-11D6-8349-00039345B18A@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <200206031834.g53IYsQW053525@fedde.littleton.co.us>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?AF8538DE-7721-11D6-8349-00039345B18A>