[HECnet] netowrk flapping....

[Peter Lothberg]

Marc Chametzky wrote:
With my connection, I noticed that the circuit would disconnect and 
reconnect periodically. It corresponded to the timeout in my firewall 
causing the UDP association to be lost. When I increased the timeout 
in my firewall for these port 700 UDP "connections", that made my 
circuit much more stable.

  Like Peter said, Peter and I had a big debate about this at lunch today.
UDP is, by definition (or so I thought), both stateless and connectionless.
I can't understand what state or connection is being timed out in this
case....

Bob





The Internet between two end-systems is by arkitekture completely state less when it comes to
knewing anything about what the packets are all about... Unfortenly people love to break that
model to *add value*... -:)

-P