On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Peter Jeremy wrote:
Disabling net.inet.ip.portrange.randomized appears to work around this
but is undesirable for other reasons.
I should add that in the short term, that does seem to be the only
solution.
Fernando Gont has some ideas on how to make port reuse happen le
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Peter Jeremy wrote:
First problem: FreeBSD appears to be re-using source ports too
rapidly. My understanding is that a TCP socket ({src IP, src port,
dst IP, dst port} tuple) should not be re-used for 120 seconds after
teardown. Sample tcpdumps and IPfilter whinges below
Hi,
After upgrading my firewall to FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE (with IPfilter), I
noticed that TCP connections between my firewall and internal hosts
(all FreeBSD and mostly 6.2) were randomly dropping out. I've found a
variety of anomolies in both FreeBSD and IPfilter and will post about
them separately
