Bug#678519: after about a month, routing gets wedged

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Rudy Zijlstra wrote:

> Still using it. Its my firewall. Sorry for missing the questions.

Yes, sorry about the clutter in my message.

[...]
> 1/ always behaved this way
> Not certain.
[...]
> 2/ how many times?
> at least twice. Its well possible that earlier cases were  masked by
> reboots from other reasons. And it has taken me some time before i
> linked particular slow network behaviour to a firewall problem
>
> 3/ how stable is the 1 month gestation time?
> no certainty on this one.

Ok.  In case you're wondering where these questions come from: it is
an attempt to find what variable changed to introduce the bug.  If
your system always behaved this way, it would mean something very
different than if it started happening when upgrading from lenny to
squeeze, for example.

I'll leave the rest of the investigation to people more knowledgeable
about networking.  For now, please attach

 - full output from "dmesg" after a normal boot
 - output from "reportbug --template linux-image-$(uname -r)", so we
   can get to know your hardware.

Thanks again and sorry for the trouble,
Jonathan