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Phil Dibowitz phil@ticketmaster.com
Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:51:37 -0700 (PDT)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Fowler wrote: > Tune the keep alives to be more often. I think the default is 7200 > seconds. Make it 300? > > I had the same issue with VPN tunnels between devices that needed to > stay connected but were quiet. I told pppd to send an echo packet every > 60 seconds. That solved that problem. > > Some firewalls/routers may be intelligent enough to see a keep alive and > not count it. I'm not a pro on that subject so I'm not sure. > > What concerns me most is why the Cyclades box does not see the failed > connection. when this happens are you basically locked out of that port > until you do something like a reboot on the Cyclades? If so I would > call support and ask if there is a patch that fixes this. I don't have to reboot, but yes, I'm locked out of the port until I log in and kill the sock_sshd process attached to that port. - -- Phil Dibowitz P: 310-360-2330 C: 213-923-5115 Unix Admin, Ticketmaster.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDSxqj9q0UmHR94IoRAjq/AJ91LWMVmOCCBWjosJk5SHlGdIXOKgCgkxk6 s3sMjqZ04UEop4o3ZN9BXi0= =Z4KU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----