Any chance one of the interfaces gets its ip address via dhcp?
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Darrell Dieringer
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 11:40 AM
> To: Netfilter List
> Subject: Fourteen Days
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Every fourteen days, I need to reboot my firewall/ nat box (RH 7.2
> ker 2.4.17 ipt 1.2.4) in order to restore Internet connectivity to my
> NAT-ed private LAN. Last night I had been browsing the web from a LAN
> machine just fine. I came back twenty mintues later and I had no
> connectivity to the Internet, neither from the LAN nor from the fw/nat
> box directly.
>
> I checked "uptime" on the fw/nat box, and it was fourteen days,
> fifteen minutes. So at the time it was still working, it was five
> minutes before the fourteen day barrier.
>
> I then rebooted the fw/nat box, and Internet connectivity was
> restored.
>
> I know others have mentioned this behavior on the list a couple of
> times. Has anyone found an explanation? I'll provide any additional
> information that might prove helpful. Just let me know what you need
> to know.
>
>
> Pentium 133 - 96M RAM
> Three PCI NIC's
> - one for external
> - one serving four machines on a private LAN
> - one serving a single machine in the DMZ
> - all the same brand - DLink 10/100's using tulip driver
> iptables modules are _not_ compiled into the kernel
> RH 7.2
> ker 2.4.17
> ipt 1.2.4
>
> Thank You,
>
> Darrell Dieringer - Madison, WI
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