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Date:      24 Mar 2003 14:42:17 -0500
From:      Adam <blueeskimo@gmx.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPF misbehaves on prolonged TCP flood
Message-ID:  <1048534937.15312.127.camel@jake>
In-Reply-To: <1048534429.15312.119.camel@jake>
References:  <1048534429.15312.119.camel@jake>

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On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 14:33, Adam wrote:
> I am running FreeBSD v4.7 on a Athlon 1600+ w/ 512mb RAM. I have
> experienced on several occasions where a prolonged TCP flood causes me
> to lose the ability to do DNS resolutions. 

Just to clarify: The problem persists for hours even after the flood has
stopped. 

The *only* way (short of rebooting) that I've found to fix the problem
is to rehash IPF: ipf -Fa -FS -vf /etc/ipf.rules -E

-- 
Adam <blueeskimo@gmx.net>


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