Is there any way to check the present value of this? I think it's already set for 7200, but it seems to time out earlier.
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Andrew Perrin (on Wed, 07 Mar 2001 08:11:50PM -0500): > > The problem I'm running into is that my wife's e-mail (which uses > > IMAP) often gets "TCP/IP Connection Dropped" errors. I suspect that these > > happen when ipchains times out her port mapping. Can someone help with > > setting ipchains so it never, or at least only after a long time, resets a > > connection on outgoing port 143? > > this is due to the (low) default masquerading timeout values of > ipchains. to change them, use > > ipchains -MS tcp tcpfin udp > > i have tcp=3600 tcpfin=5 udp=1800 and it works well. > > btw: man ipchains would have shown you that... > > martin > > [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo madduck@ !#:1:[EMAIL > PROTECTED]@@@.net > -- > yesterday it worked. > today it is not working. > windows is like that. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >