Hi, I've had similar problems, and running sdhorewall, so I don't think it's the firewall software. Only some packets seemed to be dropped, some sites just would not load. This was a temporary setup before I installed MNF on a separate box, so I didn't pursue a solution. Dan
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 11:50 pm, Bryce Conner wrote: > I'm using a crossover cable to test Mandrake 9.0 as a packet forwarding > host, connected to a cable modem. Eventually I plan to run more computers > through it, but I can't seem to solve a problem I'm having with forwarding. > > It seems that Mandrake starts to drop packets from eth0 to eth1, and > everything seems to be set up correctly. Everything works fine at boot. I > know it's a problem with my setup but I'm not sure where to start. All I > know is if I do 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/ipv4/ip_forward' (or whatever it is) it > restarts the forwarding. At least once every 24 hours it starts dropping > packets and won't restart until I manually restart it. I am using dhcpd to > serve the ip address to the Windows XP Client. > > Other than using chron to automatically issue the echo command every hour > or so (that wouldn't hurt anything would it?), is there something I can do > to track this down and solve it? > > I've looked in /var/log/kernel and there are no related errors at about the > time my packet forwarding went down the last time. Snort was running at > the time, but that shouldn't cause any problems, and I think the problem > has occurred without it running. > > I ran Bastille, which set up the bastille firewall (is it called prelude?). > I noticed that it isn't supported yet (or at least it wasn't) in Mandrake > 9.0 but I found a website that has an easy fix so it will at least run the > main program correctly. Do you think Bastille would cause this kind of > instability? > > Do you think getting the newest kernel from the cooker would fix it and not > break too many things? How many dependency issues will I have with a newer > kernel? -- 9:11am up 6 days, 11:28, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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