Thanks Eric. I have noticed what seems to be a huge number of connections when my kids start up IE 6. In the order of 50 even when they're not actually doing anything. I thought that might be ads?
How many connections could a router reasonably be expected to handle? And what would I expect to happen if I exceeded that number? Thanks for your help. David Pitts IT Services Manager Reid Library University of Western Australia Telephone: (08) 9380 3492 Fax: (08) 9380 1012 -----Original Message----- From: eric wolzak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 28 May 2003 3:15 AM To: David Pitts; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Router Stops Hello David, All My router stops periodically and I can restart it by restarting Shorewall. Lynn has suggested it might be a memory problem. Any suggestions how I can monitor RAM usage? Commands built into Bering? Packages I can run? 1. The Ram usage can be viewed from the weblet . 2 activate Spacecheck in lrp settings file and you get an email as the "disks" fill ( as long as your router isn't stopped yet ;)) 3. But I don't think the RAM is the cause ,sorry I didn't follow this treat before, What do you mean by router stops. I suppose you mean, you cannot get connections to the internet anymore. Restarting Shorewall does reinstall the firewall rules. and detects some broadcasts thereby setting a route Only restarting shorewall doesn't delete files. ( and doesn't create more space on the Filesystem so why should the router function after the restart if it was a "disk ram" problem ) It might however stop remaining unused connections and clear your table from "outdated connections" The same should be done by takeing your external interface down and up again. I have seen a pseudo none functional router after someone playing network games on theinternal net and requesting for free gameserver. just filled the tables. ( kind of unpurposed DOS ;) ) Try useing weblet to view the active connections or with the different shorewall commands If you have to much active connections weblet will time out. Regards Eric Wolzak member of the Bering Crew David Pitts IT Services Manager Reid Library University of Western Australia Telephone: (08) 9380 3492 Fax: (08) 9380 1012 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore. Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
