Re: IPFW disconnections and resets

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Neo-Vortex wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Siddhartha Jain wrote:
>
>> Even if I run this script as it is (without running from within another
>> script and redirecting), I don't get disconnected.
>
> hehe, probobly different shells or something (i use tcsh) - or mabe luck
> :) but without it i get disconnected like 99.9% of times (although because
> of the first rule after flush, only like 1% of the time do i get locked
> out :P)

1% is way too much.  use nohup.  eg:

     nohup sh /etc/rc.firewall simple &

You can wrap that in a script if you think it's necessary.

Other common advice is to run the firewall script while in a 'screen' 
environment.  See ports for screen.

Andrew McNaughton




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