That could have been a freak accident though. If the box continues to 
lock up every few days as long as that ICMP rule is in place, that could 
be the culprit, but I only allow ICMP from one host and it was locking 
up long before that rule was added(before that, no ICMP was allowed from 
anywhere) so I don't believe it is the only thing that causes the lockups.

Andrew

PF: m0n0wall wrote:

>OK, My home mono has been running perfectly for many months.  Three days
>ago, I added a rule for ICMP and it locked up today.
>
>I have a Netgear wireless router on OPT1 with captive portal and traffic
>shaping. There is a windows 2000 machine (with god knows what on it) and
>a neoware terminal on OPT1 also.  There is not a lot of traffic on this
>segment.
>
>Rules on opt1 are basically to allow certain ports (RDP) to my LAN and
>allow TCP and UDP to the internet once the captive portal is
>authenticated.
>
>I was playing with rules in an attempt to get my wife's Nintendo DS to
>work on my wireless (which still doesn't work.) I created an entry to
>allow the MAC address of the DS to bypass the captive portal. I also
>added a rule to allow ICMP. By looking in the log, I found that the DS
>is not using ICMP at all, but I didn't remove the rule.
>
>Nothing has changed other than adding the MAC bypass rule and ICMP rule
>three days ago.  
>
>
>-Kevin
>
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