> Problem: > - Everything works 'most' of the time. However after no > activity on the public interface for a while > (hours), can not connect. > But then later, can connect ?? > From a tcpdump trace on eth1, the times that it > will not connect shows > only SYN packets from the other host, no ACK from > this server? > > Have I filtered out too much traffic ? Should I > allow ICMP through the > public interface ? Bad ethernet card ? > I experienced this a whiel back. The IF would just stop responding. I noticed when I pinged from it when logged in locally that would sometimes start it back up. But it was only down for maybe 5-10 mins at a time. I chalked the problem up to I think my power management settings. The system is a server so I removed the APM aspect of it from the kernel and I think that solved the problem.
