On 14/08/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 19:06 -0700, Les wrote: > > I looked at the gui, and the tables, at the files you guys suggested, > > and looked at some files and stuff on the internet, but nothing seems > > to quite apply to this case. I'm truly puzzled. Who does the support > > for the firewall? I don't see a name associated with the firewall. > > Maybe it is time for a bug report? > > You'd want to determine whether it's an iptables fault, or whether the > firewall configurator produces some rules which are a bad idea. There's > probably a little of both, but I'd suspect that the rules are probably > not as well thought out as they should be. The current trends in > firewall rule generation (drop/ignore rather than reject) does go > against the way networking works, and is known to cause problems in some > arenas. > Another thing you might try is this: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_be_liberal With FC-6 and F-7, one of my boxes was having really slow and stalled file transfers. Turns out that this is because of a bad firewall/router somewhere on the network which is sending out-of-frame packets. Setting the above fixes the problem. It;'s an easy thing to try. J > -- > (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's > important to the thread.) > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
