On Mon Oct 07, 2002 at 01:0052PM +0200, Urs Martini wrote: > There was already some help from someone who presumed that > my troubles were perhaps caused by a disconnect of my dsl-prodiver. > I'll try to fix that tonight - hopefully that's all what I > got to do...
It should not crash your firewall. > But I've another question: Are the ports limited somehow? > (up to 65000 ports perhaps?) Urs, I don't want to be impolite now, but this question clearly shows you don't have much clue about TCP/IP networking. Please try to get some basic knowledge about the IP protocol suite. > My router masq's the internet-traffic from three clients > and the last time my firewall stopped working, I watched the > blocked ports which were all over 64000 and more... > Is that a problem or is it just normal for a masquerading > router? It is normal, I guess. To get things running, can you please tell us what exactly happens ("firewall crashes" ist not very precise!) Can you also look for output in the logfiles, e.g., but not a complete list, /var/log/messages, /var/log/kern.log. Look at the files in /var/log for the timestamp of the incident. -- Michael Bergbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> use your idle CPU cycles - See http://www.distributed.net for details. Visit our mud Geas at geas.franken.de Port 3333