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Linux Server Attached to the Internet Issue
May 23rd, 2013 at 3:28am
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Hey all,

We are making leaps and bounds on our server, but one small hiccup I'm hoping someone will be able to help with.

1. We upgraded from hosting our server on a Windows 7 machine to an Ubuntu Linux box.  The speed is amazing!  Our lag and freezes are gone.

2. We were still suffering with a lag from our second branch connecting via VPN, so we attached our server to an external IP.  the other branch's speed was great ... no issues there!

3. When we went to secure our Linux server with a  firewall with allowed IP addresses to pass through, the issues began.  Random shut downs, connections lost, and so on.

Has any one else experienced this issue?  Does anyone have any advice?
  
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Re: Linux Server Attached to the Internet Issue
Reply #1 - May 23rd, 2013 at 12:43pm
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Where is the firewall in relation to the server? Is it software running on the server, part of the router, a hardware firewall device, etc?
  

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Re: Linux Server Attached to the Internet Issue
Reply #2 - May 23rd, 2013 at 10:24pm
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Sir, it's software running on the server itself.  It's Ubuntu's UFW software.

We have set up an allow file for external ips on the server, and we have set up 'sudo ufw allow from x.y.z.q' to grant incoming permissions from the terminals' fixed ip addresses.

The issues we run into are spontaneous (and frequent) client sessions vanishing, or coming up with a communication error and then shutting down.

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Reply #3 - May 24th, 2013 at 1:00pm
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Have you allowed ports as well?

sudo ufw allow 20000/tcp
sudo ufw allow 20001/tcp

Also does ufw have logging enabled? If so, are you checking the log?
  

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Re: Linux Server Attached to the Internet Issue
Reply #4 - May 30th, 2013 at 7:24pm
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That did it sir ... thanks!
  
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