[plug] TCP timeout values - advice appreciated

Mike Holland myk at golden.wattle.id.au
Mon Oct 4 13:02:30 WST 1999


On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Paul Wilson wrote:

> respond at all !).  The IP-chains documentation mentions changing the TCP
> timeout from 15 minutes (the default), and I was looking for experiences

I think from memory, that refers only to IP masquerading. The kernel must
remember the port/host mapping of masqueraded TCP connections.


Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
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