On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Erik Auerswald <auerswal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Ari, > > > On 02/12/2013 12:54 AM, Ari Heitner wrote: >> Symptom: seemingly randomly, up to a few times a day, the network >> connection just chokes for about 30 seconds. > > Just an idea: check the number of currently active NAT sessions. Maybe this > hits a limit, some older sessions time out and everything works again. Have been running netstat-nat -n to take a look at things, both during normal operations and during the chokes - below is for normal operations camelot:~# netstat-nat -n | wc -l 374 camelot:~# netstat-nat -n | grep tcp | wc -l 269 camelot:~# netstat-nat -n | grep ESTABLISHED | wc -l 115 At least once through a choke I saw the total number of connections stay about static just under 400, then increase slowly after things started flowing again. But on the most recent choke, the number of connections did skyrocket, hitting about 1000 tcp connections, before things came down again. Is anyone aware of a hard limit set anywhere that I could check/control? Further suggestions appreciated...I'm looking for new diagnostic directions (I had never run netstat-nat till yesterday) cheers, Ari -- Ari Heitner Director of Technology www.NCSY.ca - www.TorahHigh.org w: 905.761.6279 x223 m: 647.202.1998 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lartc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html