I had similar problems and tried a "real simple" standard.filter which has
worked just fine for me:
accept any 600 any
keepup any 600 any
Bob
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Ed Williams wrote:
> > when using diald my windows95 boxes are dropping tcp connections after a few
> > k are xferred, though connections originating from the linux box work
> > reliably. (typical scenerio :-)
>
> I had this problem too, only with a Linux box on the local net. Basically,
> the problem was that the masquerading timeouts were set way too low -- when
> the masquerading entry timed out and was removed, the connection died as well.
> BUT if you set the timeouts too high, then you have trouble with masqueraded
> connections bringing up the ppp link. My solution was to set the timeouts
> very low initially (ipfwadm -M -s 1 1 1) and then in the ip-up script set them
> to more reasonable values (ipfwadm -M -s 600 300 600). In the ip-down script,
> reset them to the initial values. This way the external boxes can easily
> bring up the net without hanging, and the connections established when the net
> is up don't die prematurely.
>
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