Roy Wright writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: [temporary freezes] > I replaced my media lan's router the other day with a > gentoo+dnsmasq+shorewall homebrew and hit this behavior. My observation > is that they freeze when you loose internet connection. Two quick > tests: 1) pull you internet cable and see if that duplicates the > behavior you are experiencing; 2) try to ping an internet system while > you are experiencing the problem.
Thaks, that looked promising - my internet connection _is_ quite unstable indeed. But at the moment it's working fine, I can ping while the problem happens, and pulling the cable does not trigger it. Wonko