On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, res17fyz wrote:
> I do find it interesting that there's a dozen nat 'active sessions'
> after a while when the PC is relatively idle..  Most of these are mapped
> to the ISP's dns server(s).

Doesn't indicate anything. Sounds normal.

> Though, since the problem occurs in the middle of transfer, I'd assume
> NAT isn't the problem since the connection is already mapped (amateur
> assumption).  If I open an ftp connection on win9x and use ipmon -a on
> the gateway, then I see 'STATE:NEW' for every 'ls' command I use in ftp,
> on a new port, and if I get a large file, the ftp session dies due to
> the data problem minutes before the NAT session expires.

Unless this is something with the 1.5.3_RC2 kernel you seem to be running,
I'd suggest you try to change the network cards, or use tcpdump to see
what's happening on the network.

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Anders Dinsen
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