From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 24 15:54:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail44.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail44.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FA8337B401 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:54:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vb ([65.9.177.97]) by femail44.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20011024225432.FPVR21343.femail44.sdc1.sfba.home.com@vb> for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:54:32 -0700 Message-ID: <00a701c15cdf$49a50b20$0200a8c0@cc515939b.owml1.md.home.com> From: "vbrammer" To: Subject: Re: 4.4-STABLE + NAT + firewall = no @Home support Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:57:42 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 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 >I've been running FreeBSD as my NAT router and firewall for some time now. >In August I started having connectivity problems (no Ethernet errors, just >cable modem dropping link to head end) which has continued to this day >through several 4.3 and 4.4 versions. > >@Home's Tier I support told me today that "no software firewall of any kind" >is supported (no I'm not making this up) and that I'd have to switch to I'm no expert in the field here, but what he is telling you is that they dont know anything about your particular setup, and therefor cant help you. They also dont support home networks . >a "hub" (by which he meant a router/switch combination like the D-Link or >Linksys products. He was unable to suggest a hardware firewall that was >supported. > >Searching the @Home (athome.*) newsgroups didn't turn up any evidence of this >policy. > >I'm running 4.4-STABLE with the required name in dhclient.conf and have no hmm, Ive been running 3.x and 4.x firewalls, and right now a 5.0-current firewall, using ipfw & natd, for more than a year on @home. Ive never had this problem. One thing I do see is dhclient. Were you assigned a static IP when you signed up? In my case I was given a static IP address. In my logs I see requests to udp dhcl but those are all dropped by the firewall, and as to date I havent run into a problem like yours. >problems getting recognized. netstat -i never shows outbound errors (actually, >with the Pro100+'s I've never seen errors on either the cable modem connection >or the inside interface at 100Mbits full duplex). > fyi I use a LinkSys and a Netgear pci for the firewall machine. and old LattisNet 24 port 10base-T for a hub, and 5 machines (1 duel boot) on the inside network. >The built-in Web monitor to the cable modem shows no errors in its logs. > Id like to help more, but dont have any suggestions at this time. Im presuming you've done traceroutes and pings to your gateway and nameservers when these connectivity problems occurred? >Any ideas? >MLS Vince To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message