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From: Joel Newkirk <netfilter@newkirk.us>
Subject: Re: connection problem
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 08:58:18 -0500
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To: Paulo Andre <pandre@darkstar.nom.za>, Nigel Clarke <nigel@forever-networks.com>
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On Thursday 05 December 2002 08:35 am, Paulo Andre wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 16:56, Nigel Clarke wrote:
> > Paulo,
> >
> > >I have a problem where a router reboots every evening. I do not
> > > have control of this router.

> > As far as the issue with IPTABLES....this might be an issue with the
> > ARP cache on the firewall. What kind of
> > network card are you using? What kernel version?

> I will look at that , the old network card, but the funny thing is
> that I have to change the IP address on the card to another and then
> back to the original for it to work.

Next time try "arp -d <hostname>" to flush the arp cache, and see if that=
=20
does it, instead of cycling the IP.

j