Make sure it is not the PPP session thats dead, or your ISPs routing, man
ipchains .... and flush em, you could set it up in the script as well
to do this, and once a day run the script from cron if in fact it is chains
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On 18/03/00 at 19:12 Chris Dowling wrote:
>Hi hatters
>
>I have a box here running rh6.1 here.
>
>I have a problem with my ipchains configuration on my ppp interface.
>
>I set it up, all fine and dandy. everything works fine.
>blocks all incoming traffic except what I want to let through (ie: ssh)
>and the network on the inside can talk out to the real world fine, etc...
>
>BUT: after some large period of time (we're talking a few days here),
>ipchains decides to treat all packets as though they don't match any of
>the rules in my chains. This is only on my pp interface though.
>
>This effectively renders my machine inaccessable from the real world as
>though I have done a "ipchains -i ppp -j REJECT". The internal network
>also cannot talk to the real world. it's as thought the pp link just dies!
>
>I thought that maybe zeroing the counters might fix it, but to no avail. I
>also though maybe a magic "echo 1 > /proc/somefile" but I don't know
>which file to do it on.
>
>has anybody got any suggestions? This is kinda frustrating, as I use alot
>from work.
>
>Looking forward to ANY suggestion!
>
>Chris.
>
Regards
Greg Wright
IT Consultant Sydney Australia
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