Michel Lanners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Two things come to mind: > > 1- Firewall: some (most?) firwalls have options for dropping idle TCP > connections. Since by default telnet doesn't use any keepalive, that > may be the problem here. It need not be a real firewall; could be a > firewall config in iptables on one of your boxes.
This is a via a local LAN but yes that would be a possibility when masquerading. [Thinking about this, though, if the routing tables on the particular machine which I'm logging in *from* are not set up correctly, it *might* be using the default gateway for it's connections. Just checked - auth.log is giving that machine's correct name.] > 2- the remote box auto-logging you out. Most likely but I checked syslog; I figured that there might be mention of it "User has been idle 2 hours. Disconnected." but there was no mention of it. Another person wrote back and simply stated "debian-user"; I thought this might be a daemon or cron job that is periodically called which disconnects idle users but I have not been able to find it. Oh well. Thanks. Elizabeth
