On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 16:56, Nigel Clarke wrote: > Paulo, > > >I have a problem where a router reboots every evening. I do not have > >control of this router. > > For this, you might want to see if the janitors unplug the router to use the > outlet in the evening. > Seriously. > > As far as the issue with IPTABLES....this might be an issue with the ARP > cache on the firewall. What kind of > network card are you using? What kernel version? > > I've had problem like this on some 2.2 kernel implementations with old > network cards. I'd have to "ifconfig eth* down/up" > for the interface to work. I will look at that , the old network card, but the funny thing is that I have to change the IP address on the card to another and then back to the original for it to work. > > ;-) > > -- > Nigel Clarke Forever Networks > Network Security Engineer www.forever-networks.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org > [mailto:netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org]On Behalf Of Paulo Andre > Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 10:56 PM > To: netfilter > Subject: connection problem > > > I have a problem where a router reboots every evening. I do not have > control of this router. > The problem is with iptables, as soons as the router reboots I lose the > connection even when the router has come up afterwards. > I then have to take the interface down, reload the firewall script, then > reconfigure the interface and reapply the firewall script again so that > I can see the router again. > > Can anyone tell me why this happens, the interface is a aliased > interface, if that makes a difference. > > Thanks > > Paulo > > > >
