I think I found out what's causing the connection dropping - it's not really the firewall, it's the dynamic NAT routing. Our admin doesn't want to set up static NAT routing for the developers though if he can help it - he says that this should be reserved for servers. As an easy solution to the problem, I open up an SSH-terminal to the PostgreSQL-server and keep the top-process running (which I do mostly anyway); as long as there's just any traffic going on, the connection is kept alive - I think even pinging the server should be sufficient. Regards Markus
-----UrsprÃngliche Nachricht----- Von: James M Doherty Gesendet: Mi 18.02.2004 20:24 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Betreff: Re: [pgadmin-support] connection dropping continued I am not sure of your exact situation, but I am using a windows client with putty setting up an SSH tunnel to get through the firewall, one of the options on putty allows you to set a keep alive message every XX seconds. I have kept this connection up for days without problems... Jim ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org