Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:22:03 +0200 From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <patrick@mip.co.za> To: "FreeBSD Question List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Gateway server "hanging" Message-ID: <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAIGEPOEBAA.patrick@mip.co.za>
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Hello everyone! Something I've never seen before happened yesterday - a FreeBSD gateway/firewall server "hanging" ?!? The server is running ipfw and natd, and it handles routing between 6 private networks, and one Internet connection. It runs sshd (so I can do remote support), and net-snmp (so I can monitor it with mrtg). Apart from these services, it does NOTHING ELSE! Yesterday evening it appeared to "hang". An on-site operator reported that the keyboard would not even respond to the num-lock key. Ctl-Alt-Del was also ignored. We were forced to cycle the power! The last messages in /var/log/messages before the reboot were these: ------------------------- Feb 17 18:22:39 perimeter natd[506]: failed to write packet back (Permission denied) Feb 17 18:23:03 perimeter last message repeated 3 times Feb 17 18:24:46 perimeter /kernel: 8.223:22 in via xl0 Feb 17 18:51:11 perimeter /kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project. ------------------------- I understand the natd errors, but that "/kernel: 8.223:22 in via xl0" is foreign to me. (xl0 is the NIC facing the Internet). Any clues anyone? PS: This server is 4.3 RELEASE. Perhaps an update would be in order? Regards, Patrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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