I would like to thank everyone for their GREAT help. Increasing these values saved the day! Note: forwarded message attached. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com X-Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] via mdd102.yahoomail.com Received: from relay2.smtp.psi.net (38.8.188.2) by mta103.yahoomail.com with SMTP; 22 Apr 1999 12:46:08 -0700 Received: from [204.5.167.175] (helo=br20-excha.conres.com) by relay2.smtp.psi.net with esmtp (Exim 1.90 #1) id 10aPPY-0001rB-00; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:45:24 -0400 Received: by br20-excha.conres.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id <J3G6T78X>; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:47:17 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] m> From: Audie Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'Shawn Perkins' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [Masq] Oracle Blues Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:47:16 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 1977 You might want to look into changing the timeout because I set up a MASQ server for some company a while ago and they were experiencing a similar problem. I increased the timeout specially for the TCP connections and everything worked out. # ipfwadm -M -s 14400 60 300 > ---------- > From: Shawn Perkins[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 10:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Masq] Oracle Blues > > > About three weeks ago we set up a Linux box to do > masquerading, and to act as our corporate firewall for > the company. All of our applications seem to work fine > except Oracle. We use Oracle applications behind our > firewall (Linux box) to connect to an Oracle server on > the on the other side. We can make the initial > connection and everything seems to work fine. When the > application is not being used for more than 10 minutes > or so, we get the following error from the Oracle > application: Session attached to some other process, > can not switch session, and we loose connectivity from > the app to the server. When the application is > restarted, everything once again will work fine, until > the application is left idle. I thought this was some > kind of TCP timeout on the Linux box, so I added the > following command to the firewall script: ipchains -M > -S 480 480 0 > This did not seem to make a differance. Any help will > be greatly appreciated. > We are running Redhat 5.2 with an updated kernel, > version 2.2.5 and are using ipchains to set up the > firewall policies. > > Sincerely, > Shawn Perkins > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Masq maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://tiffany.indyramp.com/mailman/listinfo/masq > Admin requests can be handled by web (above) or > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ Masq maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tiffany.indyramp.com/mailman/listinfo/masq Admin requests can be handled by web (above) or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
