Firewall - Problems

[Duane Attaway]

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, jose sanchez wrote:

> I recently wrote an iptables script to be ran on a firewall machine.
> Everything works fine the way I intended but, if I leave the machine on
> overnight (that's what you're supposed to do), the next day I cannot
> browse the internet but I can ping, traceroute, and even chat with yahoo
> messenger. I order for me to browse the internet I have to halt the
> firewall for about two minutes and power-cycle the cable modem. This
> allows me to go back online. Has anyone heard or experienced something
> similar?

Funny... a similar thing happened to me a few days ago when I was using
iptables to forward traffic.  I'm not sure if its a buffer mismatch I hear
about when compiling the ethernet drivers or what.  Its happened to a
friend's box at an ISP and its annoying to say the least.