The following reply was made to PR kern/27164; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Darren Reed (NetBSD)" <darrenr@netbsd.org>
To: Hauke Fath <hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de>
Cc: wiz@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/27164
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 01:05:15 +1000

 Hauke Fath wrote:
 > Am 14.09.2005 um 12:51 Uhr +0000 schrieb wiz@netbsd.org:
 >> Synopsis: ipfilter 'keep state' blocking legal connections
 >>
 >> State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed
 >> State-Changed-By: wiz@netbsd.org
 >> State-Changed-When: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:51:39 +0000
 >> State-Changed-Why:
 >> Closed on request by the submitter (not reproducible).
 >
 > I have just encountered the problem again with a Debian Linux client 
 > (Linux 2.6.16-2).
 >
 > The router runs a NetBSD 3_STABLE build of 2006-03-30. Since a 
 > decision has been made to move our NetBSD based clients to a Linux OS 
 > by the end of the year, I need to resolve the issue one way or other.
 >
 > Please re-open the pr.
 
 The obvious question that should have been asked: is your state table
 filling to the point where new state entries are rejected?
 
 Darren