Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: TCP disconnects of idle connections using ip-masquerading. | Date | Thu, 28 May 1998 18:02:31 +1000 |
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On Thu, 28 May 1998 17:47:40 +1000, Robert Cohen <robert@apex.net.au> wrote: >I'm using PPP and ip-masquerading to connect a lan to the Internet. >The ppp box is running 2.0.30 > >I find that telnet sessions from another machine on the network die >after about 10 minutes idle. >Is this a known problem, perhaps something to do with TCP keepalives?
Known feature of IP masquerading. Idle sessions are dropped, there are only a limited number of masquerade port numbers so unused sessions are removed pretty quickly. "ipfawdm -s tcp tcpfin udp" sets masquerading timeout values.
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