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Subjectip_masq and IP_MASQ_S_ESTABLISHED
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I don't know about anyone else, but I find that the default value of
15 minutes for IP_MASQ_S_ESTABLISHED seems a little short. I may be slightly
atypical, but I have been driven to insanity by many things. After increasing
the timeout to two hours in my kernel, my many ssh sessions no longer go away
long before I am finished with them, and I find myself with slightly less
impetus to blow things up.

Perhaps two hours is extreme, but then so is fifteen minutes. Ideally, a
/proc/sys/net/ipv4 option would do the trick, but I certainly don't have the
skill or the time to implement such a beast and I don't understand the
thinking behind setting it so low in the first place -- unless the MIB had
something to do with it.

Anyhow, adjusting the hard-coded value seems in order, at least as far as I am
concerned. Does anyone else feel this way?

Regards,


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