I assume by firewall you also mean masquerading/NAT. This will happen w/
all masq'd sockets that are idle for > n minutes. You can change these
parameters (n) w/ ipchains -M -S something something. It is basically so
that if you don't properly close a socket the masquerader doesn't run out
of ports.
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On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Brian Swick wrote:
> I don't recall having this problem last year, but when I idle on
> uts.cc.utexas.edu now I get disconnected after about 10 minutes. This is
> extremely annoying since I just want to have pine open witing for
> email. Is there something I can add to my client config to avoid
> this? This doesn't happen from work (on campus). Also important to note
> is that I am sitting behind a firewall connected to road runner.
>
> Brian Swick
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