FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE Totally Freezes on TightVNC Connection

[Mike Jakubik]

Russell Doucette wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have this weird problem with FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE and I'm using it has 
> a router between my cable modem and my LAN.  I use the ipf firewall 
> technology and have forwarded ports so I can use TightVNC to connect 
> to my Windows XP machine from another location.  However, after a few 
> minutes or so of use, the BSD machine completely freezes (the keyboard 
> freezes, the display freezes [no text updates when I was running a 
> traffic analyzer], and all my network interfaces go dead).  I have to 
> physically turn off the machine and turn it back on.  This only 
> happens when I use TightVNC.

It's either a hardware problem, or some serious issue with ipf. As a 
side note, i would highly recommend you ditch ipf and switch to pf 
instead, its a much better firewall.