MAC addresses, hostnames, and DHCP

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Sunday 04 December 2005 02:52 pm, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> Yep - some firewalls where you pay per connection have a default
> connection timeout so you don't fill up your connection table.  Yes,
> I'm giving you the hairy eyeball, Sonicwall.    Fun note: this also
> effectively shuts down your network connection if you run nmap across
> one.


Not just firewalls, but my Netgear home router does the same thing.  More than 
a few times I ran nmap and then wondered why nothing worked again (until I 
reset my router).  And any SSH connections left idling through the router 
(either way) will eventually just stop responding and time out.

It will be replaced soon, so I will soon be unfettered by these limitations... 
yay!
-N