Re: Telnet sessions disconnecting -- Any Solution yet? -- MIDRANGE-L

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Telnet uses sockets keepalive to test for lost clients, so if anything
sits between your client (router, hub, VPN, etc.) that fails to respond
to a keep alive probe, then Telnet assumes the client is lost and posts
a message to that effect in QTVDEVICE job logs.  Try checking for that.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Galgano [mailto:cgalgano2@ediconsulting.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 11:24 AM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Telnet sessions disconnecting -- Any Solution yet?
>
>
> Jeff:
> When I connect to my AS400s via my local LAN, I never get disconnected
> and I have systems from 2.3 to 5.1 with several in-between.  I do
> however, have a problem if I connected from home, via a VPN connection
> over a DSL line.  The 400s drop the inactive sessions.  I am using a
> Linksys router to connect my home network to the DSL link, and think I
> have seen here before that the Linksys router is a problem.  I have the
> latest firmware loaded on the router..... Any ideas?

Jeffrey Stevens

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