Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:19:58 +0100 From: Adrian Penisoara <ady@freebsd.ady.ro> To: Shawn Everett <shawn@tandac.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Router Problem Message-ID: <78cb3d3f0902261619t71a054fet43779c37e2981603@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3853.206.108.16.89.1235693214.squirrel@alder.hosix.com> References: <3650.206.108.16.89.1235691792.squirrel@alder.hosix.com> <3853.206.108.16.89.1235693214.squirrel@alder.hosix.com>
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Hi, On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Shawn Everett <shawn@tandac.com> wrote: > Sorry I meant to say FreeBSD 7.0 :) > > > Hi Guys, > > > > Here's a weird one... I set up FreeBSD 5.2 to act as a router. I used > > the pf.conf script shown at: > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html#outgoing > > > > Everything works just fine. Traffic is appropriately load balanced and > > things work as expected. > > > > Strangely after a few hours something just stops routing traffic. I > can't > > ping the remote gateways either. Both external interfaces still show the > > correct IP addresses. Rebooting the BSD box solves the problem. Nothing > > else gets rebooted. Any error messages in dmesg output ? Significant changes in "netstat -m" output before and after ? The same for "pfctl -s all" output... > > > > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. Try tcpdump'ing on the router's interfaces an on the source machine and compare the packet flows -- do the packets reach the router ? Do they attempt to pass to the outside ? Regards, Adrian.
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