From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 14 1:25:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gromit.it.su.se (gromit.it.su.se [130.237.95.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D3137B405 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 01:25:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnyberg@localhost) by gromit.it.su.se (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0E9Np431472; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:23:51 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rnyberg) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:23:51 +0100 From: Richard Nyberg To: Nate Williams Cc: Ian , Rolandas Naujikas , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcp keepalive and dynamic ipfw rules Message-ID: <20020114102351.A31319@gromit.it.su.se> Mail-Followup-To: Richard Nyberg , Nate Williams , Ian , Rolandas Naujikas , stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020112123054.A20486@localhost> <15424.33362.685365.782853@caddis.yogotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15424.33362.685365.782853@caddis.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:37:06AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > # Allow me to make TCP connections > ipfw add pass tcp from me to any setup > ipfw add pass tcp from any to any established IIRC it's better to use dynamic (keep-state and check-state) rules instead, because they check more state than the static. My solution to keep my ssh sessions from hanging because I made a cup of coffe was to up the syctl MIB 'net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_ack_lifetime' to a more reasonable value. -Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message