Joerg Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 12:10:09PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > > If their firewall reboots and is running iptables and thus Linux: How > > > long will it be down? > > > > 120 seconds to reboot with a fixed kernel... > > Umm, OK, I shouldn't have compared the reboot time of my desktop pc > with a tuned firewall/router pc.
You call 120 seconds tuned? My Linux firewall at home is up with forwarding and SSH-server running 20 seconds after hitting the reset button... > telnet/ssh/... depend on whether you are > actively doing something when the connection goes down. If you do, > even two minutes is too long ususally. Either your app has thrown > you out with a ping timeout etc, or the user will become impatient > and kill the connection anyway. Wrong. I always have several ssh-sessions, often with tunnels, which I really prefer not to restart even if the network goes down for several minutes. //Marcus -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------- Marcus Sundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Firewalls with SIP & NAT Firewall Developer, Ingate Systems AB | http://www.ingate.com/
