On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 12:29 -0400, Jesse Cantara wrote: > Hi Bob, > > <snip> > The issue I'm having is that external traffic is being forwarded > properly, BUT that it drops the connection occasionally. It's not > consistent (maybe 2 out of 5 downloads from the internet through the > router to the webserver will drop), and the connections are being made, > so it's not a fundamental configuration issue. It's something more > sneaky. I'm thinking that there's something in the kernel or network > driver that isn't functioning properly, or maybe a buffer that is > becoming full and abandoning the connection? > > <snip> > -Jesse > > Bob Chiodini wrote: > > > > > > Jesse Cantara wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I am trying to figure out a problem I'm having using CentOS on a > >> machine as a router. The short story is: any traffic routed through > >> the router seems to get disconnected at random occasionally. > >> > >><snip> Someone recently posted a thread about a similar complaint to the lists recently. IIRC, the [SOLVED] post mentioned a problem with MTU being smaller than some of the packets received at one point, causing fragmentation, and the next step not being to reassemble the packet because of a certain flag being set. I don't remember which bit the flag was and no little about this, but I remember the general gist. Maybe your problem is similar? HTH -- Bill