RE: [leaf-user] Router Stops

2003-05-28 Thread David Pitts
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outdated connections The same should be done by takeing your external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

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Re: [leaf-user] Router Stops

2003-05-27 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 09:32 AM 5/27/2003 -0500, Lynn Avants wrote:
On Monday 26 May 2003 10:59 pm, David Pitts wrote:
 More of the same!

 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?
'df'
df checks filesystems (including RAMdisk, which is probably what Lynn has 
in mind as the location of your problem).

free checks RAM. Use the information from the second line. Or, if free 
is not on Bering (unlikely, but I forget right now), look at /proc/meminfo .





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Re: [leaf-user] Router Stops

2003-05-27 Thread eric wolzak
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





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Re: [leaf-user] Router Stops

2003-05-27 Thread Tom Eastep
On Tue, 27 May 2003 21:14:44 +0200, eric wolzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


It (restarting Shorewall )might  however stop remaining unused 
connections
and clear your  table from outdated connections
It does not.

-Tom
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