On Thu, March 5, 2009 12:30, Ivan Voras wrote: > Hi, > > It appears that IPFW drops dynamic (state-keeping) rules for idle IPv6 > TCP connections after a short (60 seconds by default) timeout. This of > course creates problems for services like SSH and NFS. I've contacted > Luigi Rizzo about it but he cannot help with the IPv6 part of the ipfw. > His guess is that the part that should send keepalive ACK packets like > ipfw does for IPv4 is broken or nonexistent for IPv6. > > Any takers? Should I file a PR? > >
You might want to check if kern/117234 is relevant here. I've got a feeling this is the problem you're seeing. The PR includes a patch, it just needs somebody to commit it. good luck. Joost. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
