also sprach Andrew Perrin (on Wed, 07 Mar 2001 08:11:50PM -0500): > The problem I'm running into is that my wife's e-mail (which uses > IMAP) often gets "TCP/IP Connection Dropped" errors. I suspect that these > happen when ipchains times out her port mapping. Can someone help with > setting ipchains so it never, or at least only after a long time, resets a > connection on outgoing port 143?
this is due to the (low) default masquerading timeout values of ipchains. to change them, use ipchains -MS tcp tcpfin udp i have tcp=3600 tcpfin=5 udp=1800 and it works well. btw: man ipchains would have shown you that... martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo madduck@ !#:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- yesterday it worked. today it is not working. windows is like that.