Ask your ISP if they have a 'netbios filter' on your IP address.
If so it needs to be removed.
This problem is cropping up more and more if that is the problem.
It has happened to me and others on this list and other Linux Lists.
For example on a dual-boot machine:
I was having to log out of Linux every 6 hours and boot M$
Then logout of M$ and reboot Linux which worked for another 6 hours.
Very maddening! Perhaps someday a workaround will be devised, It took
me two weeks and 4 different "Tech support" people before my problem
was tracked down by a tech who was running L-M 6.1 at home and
checked my MAC address and found the dang filter.
This was a static IP Cable-Modem situation
This may not be your paticular problem but
it certainly has been for myself and others!
BTW my ipmasq/ipchains are working great right now.
Good Luck
William Bouterse
Juneau Alaska
"S. Newhouse" wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I just started using ipchains and ip_masquerade. Cool idea, but it
> has not been very stable on my linux boxes.
>
> Setup: host1 = PII-300 on internet with T1 connection running
> ipchains and ip_masquerade, with 10 MB ethernet card
>
> host2 = PIII-600 on private net connected to host1 with 100 MB
> ethernet card
>
> host3 = Win-98 box on private net with 100 MB ethernet card
>
> The linux boxes are running Mandrake 6.1, stock 2.2.13-7mdk kernel.
>
> Things start fine, netscape, telnet, etc.
>
> Then host2 starts to randomly drop the connection to the
> outside. Works for several minutes, then stops.
>
> Strangely enough, host3 (running Win) works fine so far.
>
> Any ideas? Are there others using Mandrake with ipchains and ip_masq
> with no problems?
>
> TIA,
> -sen
