I switched from RedHat Linux to OpenBSD approx 2 months ago. I
was running OpenBSD as my gateway/firewall and everything
was working fine until I went on spring break. (gotta love college) When
I returned from spring break I figured my network missed me and it was
trying to piss me off, because every once in a while it would kick me
offline. I would restart the network section of OpenBSD and all would be
hunky spunky. I posted a message a week ago and got a response telling me
to reconfigure my kernel with the Option Gateway in the kernel, along with
increasing my nbufs and 2 other items. I did this yesterday hoping it
would fix the problem. With my luck, I should have known it is still
messing up. I have 2 Different type of NIC's in the firewall/gateway
(duh) 1 is dc0 and the other is xl0. I thought maybe part of the problem
was that BSD didn't like the NIC that was connected to the internet so I
switched them around, moving dc0 to the external word (home) and xl0
(internal network). Almost as quickly as the internet connection was
dropped with the original setting, it happened with the new setup. I then
crossed the NIC interfaces off the list. When the internet does go
do...if I

/sbin/ifconfig xl0
/sbin/ifconfig xl0 up ip.addy.here

It starts up and runs fine for a given period of time...but then drops the
connection. After the connection is dropped I can ping my IP (duh it's
like local host) but nothing else on the external subnet (not even the
gateway) I'm farely new to BSD and was wondering if there was a fix for
this or do I have to shove my foot so far up the home CEO's (explicitive
delete) that he has to tip his hat to (explicitive delete).

Thanks in advance,
Ryan

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