Hello all,
I recently traded in my Solaris 8 (x86) install for SuSE Linux 7.3 and now
am having problems keeping telnet sessions open for extended periods of
time. Let me give a little background on what I use this box for.
Basically my linux box is used as a workstation for system monitoring. I
usually have 6 to 8 separate desktops which I use to separate our different
Unix environments (i.e. development, test, production ...). I may run HP
Openview client on one desktop to monitor alerts and keep telnet sessions
open on other desktops in order to quickly access a given server.
Until recently I've been using Solaris 8 (x86) with no problems, but decided
I wanted to get comfortable with linux and prove to my boss that there are
many nice things we can do with linux that we can't do with Solaris. I
installed SuSe 7.3 (2.4.10 kernel) and since have had troubles keeping
telnet connections alive. What I mean by that is, when I leave the linux
workstation inactive for a period of time (let's say 30 minutes), my telnet
sessions are disconnected with the message "Connection closed by foreign
host". I can find no messages in /var/adm/messages (on the Solaris side) or
/var/log/messages (on the linux side).
Anyone have this type of problem or more importantly, can someone point me
in the right direction?
Thanks.
Matthew
