From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 6 4:57: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dayab.ch (mail.dayab.ch [193.135.253.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1248B37B417 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 04:57:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 95452 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2001 12:52:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bturtle.ch) (193.135.253.141) by mail.dayab.ch with SMTP; 6 Dec 2001 12:52:00 -0000 Message-ID: <3C0F7966.908CD6E6@bturtle.ch> Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 13:57:58 +0000 From: "S. Aeschbacher" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; OpenBSD 3.0 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike D , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cable modem connection problem References: <20011206071926.QTHW27606.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@there> <20011205233229.R3061@blossom.cjclark.org> <20011206080612.KYRB10846.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@there> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi I experienced similar problems here in Switzerland. It happend with FreeBSD as well as with OpenBSD routers. A solution I found is deleting the arp table entry of the default router of the cable modem provider (as a cron job). I did not investigate the source of the problem. Anyone got any clues? Stefan Mike D wrote: > > I have a set up where my FreeBSD 4.4 box is acting as a firewall and gateway > between a cable modem on xl1 and my home net on xl0. > > I have a pretty tight rules list and don't have that many procs running > (ipfw, natd, mysql, tomcat - that's it!) > > It seems that after approx 10 hours the connection REALLY slows down, most > connection attempts on other ports (e.g. 110) time out and I have to reboot > the box. After the reboot everything is back to normal. > > If you have *any* thoughts at all as to what this could be - please let me > know, I'm getting pretty desperate. > > many thanks in advance! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message