> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Buechler [mailto:cbuechler at gmail dot com]
> Sent: Monday, 18 December 2006 6:38 AM
> 
> On 12/17/06, Chris Andrist <chris at yeahmon dot net> wrote:
> > I currently use traffic shaping and NAT with m0n0wall. I am 
> > currently using 1.23b1, because it was causing problems when 
> > multiple computers were using the internet. For one on my 
> > wife's laptop it would not even connect to the apple 
> > software update.
> > 
> > I know that the beta website says "a rather intrusive kernel 
> > patch was required to make concurrent traffic shaping + NAT 
> > on the WAN interface possible; if you rely on this feature, 
> > please test it well and report any problems"
> 
> There are no known issues with 1.2x, and none of this applies 
> to that series.  Any connectivity issues you're having with 
> 1.2x aren't issues with the system, if you're having problems 
> there must be something wrong with your particular setup.  As 
> to what that might be, without a lot more information about 
> your setup it's impossible to say.
> 
> As for this particular issue, it only affects inbound NAT (if 
> you open ports on your WAN into hosts on internal networks), 
> and the problem it causes is that the inbound traffic just 
> disappears.  It has no effect on outbound traffic.  As for 
> what tests would be appropriate, just making sure inbound NAT 
> works when using traffic shaping would suffice.  The other 
> potential issue is kernel panics, which will be apparent 
> eventually if that's an issue.
> 
> -Chris

Hi Chris,

We use inbound NAT and also traffic shaping.  I updated to the 1.3B1
release the day it was released and have not noticed anything "weird" or
"air gappy" since.  What sort of issues should I look out for to report,
and what settings will cause these issues (so I can check to see if I'm
even likely to notice any issues).

(Out of interest, we have 25, 443, 4125 and SIP-related ports open here
to inbound traffic.)

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