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List:       netbsd-tech-net
Subject:    Re: NetBSD as ISDN dialout router drops first connection
From:       Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios () theory ! cs ! uni-bonn ! de>
Date:       2001-09-14 11:48:56
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On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:14:42AM +0200, Alex Sorg wrote:
> Hello tech-net-folx,
>=20
> I use NetBSD 1.5X as a isdn dialout-router with ipnat and ipf for my
> small network. Everything works fine, except that it drops the first
> connection attempting to connect to the internet. As I heard this
> happening on Linux boxes too, I thought this might be a general
> problem for unices. Or is it just a problem of configuration?

I suspect you do not have a fixed IP address.... if this is indeed the case,
the first packet out uses a bogus address and can't get any response back.

This is a problem for TCP connections, of course.

Regards,
	-is

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