Sounds like a firewall problem. Just for fun you might try lowering your keepalive time to say 29 min, or even lower just for testing, and see if that helps. The default is 2 hours (7200 sec) or 14400 half sec on bsd) cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time 7200 you can use sysctl or just echo the new value in echo 1740 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time or sudo /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time=1740 Anyone know if this works for clients as well as daemons? Jason On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 09:36, Simoncini, Matthew wrote:
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.
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