Re: IP masq
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, A+B Frank wrote:
> > I connect to the Internet from a masqueraded LAN through a masquerading
> > gateway/proxy server. My problem is that, if I am logged in to somewhere
> > outside our network with ssh or telnet, after a little while of inactivity
> > the gateway resets the connection and I have to reconnect.
> >
> > The proxy server is a Deb 2.1 with kernel 2.0.38. What should I set in its
> > kernel if I want to keep the connection even if it's idle?
> >
> > (it's all the same, wherever I connect to, I get disconnected, so it's
> > not a logoutd thing.)
>
> Hi,
> it seems to me like a time out for idle lines. Search in th
> configuration
> files of ppp/ippp for a parameter "huptimeout" or so.
there is no (i)ppp installed to that machine. it connects with 10baseT
ethernet to a micro device, and we are connected (masquaraded) through it.
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Gabor Gludovatz <ggabor@sopron.hu> http://www.sopron.hu/~ggabor/
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