FreeBSD Router Problem

[Shawn Everett]

Sorry I meant to say FreeBSD 7.0 :)

> Hi Guys,
>
> Here's a weird one...  I set up FreeBSD 5.2 to act as a router.  I used
> the pf.conf script shown at:
> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html#outgoing
>
> Everything works just fine.  Traffic is appropriately load balanced and
> things work as expected.
>
> Strangely after a few hours something just stops routing traffic.  I can't
> ping the remote gateways either.  Both external interfaces still show the
> correct IP addresses.  Rebooting the BSD box solves the problem.  Nothing
> else gets rebooted.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Shawn
>