RE: Firewall is loosing it's marbles

["Waldher, Travis R" <Travis R Waldher boeing com>]

> From: Waldher, Travis R 
> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 8:48 AM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Firewall is loosing it's marbles
>
> I've got a pretty strict firewall setup on a machine that acts as a gateway between a production environment and a test > > > 
> environment.
>
> Users will log in to the box to access the test environment, the box is running RHEL5.  Once in, it's like the roach motel, no one > gets back out to the real world from the test world.
>
> My firewall is working fine, but it seems to loose it's marbles and deny ssh but still allow pings from the outside after a day or > two.  Wiping out the tables and re-applying them corrects the issue but obviously this is a poor solution.
>
> Has anyone else seen iptables partially stop working like this?

Answer: Firewall + DHCP = no worky so well.