IPFire dropping connection without reason

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I have IPFire (Latest version 2.29 Core Update 187) installed on VirtualBox (Linux Host) and has 2 network adapters, one is NAT and has connection to the internet (Red), and one is set to host-only adapter (Green), and this only connects to a local network between the other VMs.

I have another VM (Rocky Linux), which uses IPFire as its gateway. Whenever I try to download a large file, for example using “yum upgrade”, or “wget”, it keeps dropping the connection suddenly and the download fails. When I set the VM network to NAT without using IPFire as a gateway, issue doesn’t occur.

Also, when I was updating IPFire through PakFire, I had to restart the download process a few times because it kept dropping, so it seems it is an issue with IPFire itself dropping packets or shutting down connections for some reason.

It is a clean new installation of IPFire so I don’t have any addons installed and no custom configurations, also QoS is disabled.

So What might be the issue?

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Hall @m_12301

Welcome to the IPFire community.

It might be your virtual machine setup.

For my testing and development work I have a virtual IPFire with 4 networks and with two virtual arch linux machines on each of the green, blue and orange zones.
I have just completed doing an update of all the arch linux systems on each of the vm machines without any problems.

I have the green, blue and orange networks set up as Internal Network and the red as Bridged Adaptor and that works fine for me.

I have only used the above setup with VirtualBox and have not done anything with NAT or Host-Only adapter setup’s.
Maybe try out with Internal Network for the green network.

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