Re: IP masq

[A+B Frank <abfrankffm@web.de>]

Gabor Gludovatz wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 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.)
> 
> --
>  Gabor Gludovatz <ggabor@sopron.hu> http://www.sopron.hu/~ggabor/

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.

Greetings
Albrecht