I had this sort of thing happen almost two years ago on a 2650 with apf (prior version). We do have it runnning on a few Dell boxes (750, 1850, and 2650) with out an issues today and on version back. I doubt it would be kernel related. What are the settings in your conf.apf?
Anything in the logs? Some cron job firing off when it happens? Do you have something feeding it a block list of sorts? What is the USE_AD= setting set at?
Have you asked Ryan @ rfxnetworks? I believe that is his name anyway.
Andrew
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org]On Behalf Of Steph Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 1:04 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] CentOs 4.X and APF firewall issues
--> Hi,
We have 7 Dell 2850 servers with dual xeon 3 gig processors running the APF firewall version 0.9.6 http://rfxnetworks.com/apf.php
They run fine for a day or two, then suddenly lock out all incoming connections, other than the backend IP, sometimes restarting the firewall resolves this, but occasionally we may have to leave it 10 mins or so before restarting where it will actually allow connections again.
Has anyone had this issue themselves, or does anyone successfully running Cent0s 4.X with the 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp kernel have a sample /etc/apf/config.apf I could take a look at?
Thanks in advance
Stephanie Royle.