Don Dailey wrote: > I am looking at this page: > > http://cryp.to/publications/masquerading-idle-connections/ > > and wondering if it's relevant. It seems to describe the problem > pretty well, talks about a 15 minute timeout which would do it and the > timeout is built into the linux kernel but can be changed. > > I'm really very weak on networking so I'm not sure what I'm actually > reading or whether this fix needs to be applied on the server end or the > client end. Any ideas is this is relevant?
That page is talking about long-obsolete software, but yes, it seems very likely that this is the basic issue. Most home 'internet routers' and many firewalls do network address translation, and will fail to maintain a connection after some amount of idle time. Trying to reconfigure the firewalls to have a longer timeout is probably a waste of effort. I think arranging for either the CGOS server or the client to send some boring message every few minutes will be the most practical solution. -M- _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
