On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Harrison, James wrote: > > netfilter sends RST if it was configured to do so by using the REJECT > > target. > > > > No vanilla netfilter sends RST to client and server, in any setup. > > I understand, but the file transfer is initiated, begins, and can and > will run for a period of time, then out of the blue it fires the RST. Are you sure the firewall creates the RST segments? > Why? Dunno. You should capture the full traffic by tcpdump so that one could analyze it. Without such a proof nothing much can be said. Also, one would require the list of netfilter patches (from patch-o-matic or others) applied on top of kernel 2.4.31 in devil-linux. Best regards, Jozsef - E-mail : kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key : http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/pgp_public_key.txt Address : KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary