[plug] Telnet Timeouts w. IPMasq

[John Summerfield]

> cthart at gbs.com.au wrote:
> > 
> > Trevor,
> > 
> > It's the way it works.
> 
> I suspected as much...
> 
> > You can increase the timeouts using
> > ipfwadm -s
> > followed by three numbers which represent in seconds
> > the timeouts for three types of packets that get
> > masqueraded.
> 
> Is there any nice way to do a keepalive for Telnet sessions?? Something
> to prod it every few minutes?

I seem to have missed something. I use this
	/sbin/ipfwadm -M -s 7200 300 7200
and can telnet through it for simply ages without inactivity timeouts.



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