On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have KeepAlive configured on my server, but still occationally we get a
> session that hangs. netstat -an showes the tcp connection is still
> ESTABLISHED an hour later, w shows the user logged in and the sshd is still
> alive. At this point should the KeepAlive signal realize the other side is
> dead and kill the connection?? Is there a timer associated w/ KeepAlive?
> Any suggestions? Red Hat 6.2
Some NAT gateways will expire long running quiescent TCP connections.
Under Linux, you can play with /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_keepalive_* to
modify keepalive times. Some other operating systems can adjust them
using sysctl ("net.inet.tcp.keep*" on OpenBSD).
-d
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