Hi, I've been using pfsense 1.2 as my company's internet sharing router for a few days.
Yesterday I set a threshold value for the "maximum new connections / per second" on the default LAN rule. I also set some other advanced options mainly to reduce the impact from some p2p download software. Today one guy came to me and said his computer can't reach to internet anymore. After some digging, I found that: He has a software on his computer which could emit many connections in all of a sudden (which has exceed my setting quite a lot) and after that his computer would failed to access internet. At this time, the pfsense router can ping his computer quite well while the later can't ping the router. Finally his computer can access the router or the internet again after changing its ip address or restarting the router. That's not a good solution for sure ;-) Because the problem could be repeated exactly, I guess that maybe the router has banned the computer's ip address because that software on it. I think there may be somewhere in the webConfigurator to handle these banning things. But I failed to find out any related function page. Then I cleared the 'maximum new connections per second' setting and the problem is just gone whatever the guy use that software. Of coz, I could just increase the threshold value or even tell the guy not to use that software. But I still wonder if there any way for me to view all these banned ip addresses? Is there any way for me to de-ban them? How long would be the banning period? I'm not a bsd expert and just use unix/linux once in a while. Any help would be appreciated. -- Best Regards, Yin Gang --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
