On 31 Dec, this message from Michel Dänzer echoed through cyberspace: > On Sun, 2001-12-30 at 21:45, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > >> > 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. > > Could it simply be the TCP connection that timed out? Tweak > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_* (on the client) to avoid that.
That should never happen. Unless you have a box inbetween (my answer 1-: firewall), neither client nor server should timeout a TCP connection. Application, yes; but never the stack. Which means that the /proc tweeking wouldn't help, AFAIR. It's worth a shot to maybe force telnet to actually use a keepalive (which it doesn't by default. Just try to telnet into a server from your Pismo; make it sleep for a day ot two, and see your telnet session spring to life again on wakeup ;-) Cheers Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. "
