Quoting Gabor Gludovatz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, A+B Frank wrote: > > > > I connect to the Internet from a masqueraded LAN through a masquerading > > > gateway/proxy server. My problem is that, if I am logged in to somewhere > > > outside our network with ssh or telnet, after a little while of inactivity > > > the gateway resets the connection and I have to reconnect. > > > > > > The proxy server is a Deb 2.1 with kernel 2.0.38. What should I set in its > > > kernel if I want to keep the connection even if it's idle? > > > > > > (it's all the same, wherever I connect to, I get disconnected, so it's > > > not a logoutd thing.) > > > > Hi, > > it seems to me like a time out for idle lines. Search in th > > configuration > > files of ppp/ippp for a parameter "huptimeout" or so. > > there is no (i)ppp installed to that machine. it connects with 10baseT > ethernet to a micro device, and we are connected (masquaraded) through it.
You might try something like echo 120 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time to change the tcp timeout from 2hours to 2mins. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
