Hello, Every fourteen days, I need to reboot my firewall/ nat box (RH 7.2 ker 2.4.17 ipt 1.2.4) in order to restore Internet connectivity to my NAT-ed private LAN. Last night I had been browsing the web from a LAN machine just fine. I came back twenty mintues later and I had no connectivity to the Internet, neither from the LAN nor from the fw/nat box directly.
I checked "uptime" on the fw/nat box, and it was fourteen days, fifteen minutes. So at the time it was still working, it was five minutes before the fourteen day barrier. I then rebooted the fw/nat box, and Internet connectivity was restored. I know others have mentioned this behavior on the list a couple of times. Has anyone found an explanation? I'll provide any additional information that might prove helpful. Just let me know what you need to know. Pentium 133 - 96M RAM Three PCI NIC's - one for external - one serving four machines on a private LAN - one serving a single machine in the DMZ - all the same brand - DLink 10/100's using tulip driver iptables modules are _not_ compiled into the kernel RH 7.2 ker 2.4.17 ipt 1.2.4 Thank You, Darrell Dieringer - Madison, WI
