Lewis, Aaron wrote:
> I have two identically configure Alpha ES80 servers. They have recently
> been upgraded to VMS8.3 & Multinet 5.2, with all the same patches
> installed on both. On 1 system any idle telnet connection gets dropped
> after 1 hour, on the other system it will stay connected forever, which
> is what I want. Both systems have keep alive timers set
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> Service "TELNET":
>
> TCP socket (AF_INET6,SOCK_STREAM), Port 23
> Socket Options = SO_KEEPALIVE
> Keepalive timers: idle 900 seconds, probe interval 75, 2 probes
> INIT() = Merge_Image
> LISTEN() = TCP_Listen
> CONNECTED() = TCP_Connected
> SERVICE() = Internal_Telnet
> Program = "MULTINET:LOADABLE_KERBEROS_TELNET"
> Backlog = 500
>

I'd start a tcpdump, start a telnet session, let it be idle and
get dropped and see who is closing the connection and why.

$ mu tcpdump host and port telnet

--Mike


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