Hi, I am running debian woody on my nat firewall. Kernel is 2.4.19-pre2-ac2 and iptables 1.2.5. I use narc 0.6.1 to create iptables rules. I have one linux computer and one windows computer on small internal LAN behind the firewall that does DNAT.
I can access internet normally without any problems from all three computers. When I try to access the firewall computer itself, it takes a long time. E.g. creating ssh connection to server takes 30-60 secs before password is asked. After connection is created, everything is normal. This problem is most irritating when using the www-site that resides on firewall box. Each page request takes 10-20 secs. Also ssh'ing from firewall back to linux computer on internal LAN takes same 10-20 secs. At first I had this problem only occasionally, and it took no more than 1 day until it worked well again. Now I have the problem all the time, even reboot wont help. I heard two of my friends experiencing the same problem. They are both running Mandrake on their server/firewall. I hope that someone can help with this irritating problem. BR, samppa -- Whoa...I did a 'zcat /vmlinuz > /dev/audio' and I think I heard God...
