On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > 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. > > > > ---- > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-diald" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-diald" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
