[plug] Telnet Timeouts w. IPMasq

[John Summerfield]

> John Summerfield wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> 
> Two hours in fact! So, what happens if I go to a meeting at 10:30am,
> followed by lunch, and get back to my office at 1:00pm? My Telnets have
> dropped out! I like to come back to something later, without having to
> log in again, and sometimes that's even overnight. Sure, I could set the
> timeout to something exorbidant, but it seems a clunky method of keeping
> the connection. 


Don't be silly. That's what the limit is for: so the sysadmin can set it 
to a value the management considers reasonable. With 96 Mb RAM, one user, 
two hours is quite modest.

Without ipmasq, there's no limit at all.
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John Summerfield
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