Come on, seriously. Do you expect any type of useful help with a plea that consists of: Things stopped working! Some important network info (which I won't include) didn't seem to show anything wrong! help! Do YOU think you could help someone that gave you so little information? You even mention a time when it usually happens, but NO logs at all. Seriously, we need more information.
Jason On 6/30/05, Dave Beckstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been fighting a problem with my openbsd firewall for a few days now. > The system is a 1 ghz Pentium processor with 512 meg of ram. It's running > as a transparent bridged firewall doing nothing but packet filtering. > > The problem I run into is that it will suddenly stop processing and my > internet connection drops. I'll have a ping running against an external > site and the firewall might stop processing packets for 2 or 3 minutes and > then it starts working again. Then it may run for 20 minutes and stop > working for 5 minutes. It may run 8 or 10 hours without any problems and > then suddenly it gets flakey for an hour or two where I have to keep > rebooting to keep it processing. The system ran for a year prior with no > such problems. > > I have tried installing OBSD 3.4, OBSD 3.6 and OBSD 3.7 (which I'm currently > running on). It has done it on all 3 versions of OBSD. I even built a > new, temporary, firewall on a completely different machine and the same > thing happened. It doesn't seem to be a hardware problem. > > The firewall sits behind a CISCO 2610 router which means a 10 meg Ethernet > connection coming into the firewall. > > If I remove the firewall I can watch the pings and they never miss a beat. > It is definitely the firewall that stops processing packets. > > Netstat -m shows plenty of available clusters (66% in use at peak). The > packet filter table shows 600 packets per second around the time that it > fails. CPU usage is very low with plenty of ram available. > > Has anyone heard anything about any worms or DOS attacks happening which > might account for this? The problems predominantly happen late evening or > in the middle of the night. > > Thanks, > > Dave
