On Thursday 01 July 2004 11:17 pm, AmirS wrote: > Hello, > > After I set up the firewall (on redhat 7.2), > everything works fine for a few hours. But after a > while (not sure the exact amount of time), the > computer stops responding to requests on the open > ports (21,22,80). > > Any help please ? :-( Sounds like a hardware problem to me - check the network interface - swap the card if you can, to test a different one. Does another machine on the same subnet lose its arp cache entry for the machine when the ports stop responding? > Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) > target prot opt source destination > ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere > ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ftp > ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ssh > ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:http > ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state > RELATED,ESTABLISHED > DROP all -- anywhere anywhere > > Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) > target prot opt source destination > > Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) > target prot opt source destination I *hope* that ruleset is only because you're trying to figure out what's wrong, and you don't normally run the system like that? Regards, Antony. -- "640 kilobytes (of RAM) should be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.