General Questions

Hi folks,

I'm experiencing a TCP timeout way sooner than my setting. I've set it to 3600 but I get timeouts after just a few minutes. Five minutes away from an ssh connection and I have to re-connect

Are there other settings that can affect the timeout limit, or anything else I should be aware of?

That might be your ssh server dropping the connection, not m0n0wall. See if you can enable a "keep alive" in either the server or client.

Well, connecting to the same servers outside my wall I never loose the connection. And I'm connecting from my good ol' laptop at all times, so I don't think this is the issue.

No problems here (latest beta of m0nowall) , but then again we have KeepAlive set in our servers.

It wouldn't hurt to at least check that setting and enable it if you can.

You're right, it didn't hurt

However, that doesn't change anything.

I should have mentioned, that this is not just when using ssh. I have a slimserver set up streaming music and that dies too when I access it from outside my FW. I believe slimserver "streams" in the way that it sends a chunk of music and waits for you to request the next track. So, in between tracks I get disconnected.

seeing the same problem with long running TCP connections (esp. ssh) and keepalives don't help -- I've set the timeout to 86400 (24 hours) to no avail. This started with 1.3b15 (was running 1.3b12 before and didn't experience this). Very annoying.

I forget which beta version, but I also did not have this problem earlier in the beta stream.

There must be more people out there seing this?

I concur. With my connection running through m0n0wall's NAT in the latest 1.3 betas my SSH connections die after a short period of time without activity.

If I run the same connection through pfSense running on the same hardware I do not experience this issue.

We are experiencing the same issue.  At the very least SSH, and RDP are effected.

I think it's a problem with FreeBSD 6.x, myself.  Back in the day, before I started using m0n0, and used a stand alone FBSD box, I started noticing this issue.

As soon as m0n0 went from the 4x release to the 6x release, I immediately noticed it in my telnet and SSH connections.  I don't see it in anything else, however.

This bug is now being investigated here: http://forum.m0n0.ch/index.php/topic,3253.0.html

This seems to be still broken in 1.32. All my SSH connections timeout after few minutes, but without monowall they stay up just fine.

I just used PuTTY to SSH into a remote pfSense firewall and let it set idle for over an hour. I then issued a ping command without a problem.  My local firewall is running 1.32 - Generic PC.  Looks to be working from what I can tell.

Roy...

I just used PuTTY to SSH into a remote pfSense firewall and let it set idle for over an hour. I then issued a ping command without a problem.  My local firewall is running 1.32 - Generic PC.  Looks to be working from what I can tell.

Roy...

Looks like this only happens when I'm on WLAN connection. I use WPA+WPA2 PSK with TKIP+AES/CCMP and the wlan card on my Monowall is Atheros 5212.

Might be time to upgrade to a real hardware access point.

 

Roy...