Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Sep 1998 16:39:04 -0300 | From | Juanjo Ciarlante <> | Subject | Re: Masquerading - extending the timeout values |
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On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 10:32:42AM -0400, Mark Lehrer wrote: > > Hello! Is it possible to have a masquerading Linux system keep a TCP > connection alive for a longer period of time? I regularly telnet to > my home system and if I don't do anything for more than a few minutes, > it closes the connection... annoying! > > Is this a kernel setting, or ipfwadm, or do I need to dig into the > kernel source (I've always wanted to do that!) kernel's resource protection, controlled by ipfwadm in 2.0 kernels and ipchains in 2.1 (currently NOOP in 2.1; a patch has been sent, expect it will mainstream soon). 2.0: see ipfwadm(8), "-s tcp tcpfin udp".
Regards... -- -- Juanjo http://juanjox.home.ml.org/ You don't need an hologram to know... Nor you need to sell your brain to anyone. You can feel it. It's Linux.
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