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  3. February 2002

Re: Timeouts

Thanks Dennis - never knew about tcpdump but it's helped :)

>What IS your CHGTELNA  TIMMRKTIMO() set to?

2000000000

>
> I can tell you that by default on most platforms, telnet *client* does not
> time out.

Linux Mandrake 8.1.

>
> It is also possible that the network (firewalls, gateways, routers) at your
> location is tripping you up.

Yes - that's it... tcpdump shows that the local network isn't timing out -
it's the ISP. There's some sort of RIPv2-resp from the telecoms router which
looks as though it's dropping the telnet connection after 5 minutes or so.
Makes sense I suppose.

thanks,

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