Hi all,

I have a very strange problem with ipf. Up till yesterday, it worked perfectly,
but all of a sudden, I couldn't make any connection whatsoever. I think, from
what ipmon reports, that the 'keep state' functionality didn't work as expected;
in my setup, I basically pass all outgoing packets with keep state and block
everything that comes in unless it's on a port with a service (ssh, http, etc).

When I just enter 'ipf -Fa', everything works again, so it must be ipf.

The strangest thing was that sometimes, a connection does come through, but
it takes a long time and it's very slow besides. Can anyone give me a clue as
to what could be happening here? I'd be very grateful.

  Jaap Boender
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