Re: RDi through VPN

Basically this is a misconfiguration in one or more of the devices your
TCP/IP packets need to travel through. As AS/400 connectivity requires
multiple port connections, it is perfectly possible to have one active and
the other being idle and discarded.

A way to circumvent this is to have e.g. a SOCKS5 proxy running remotely and
then tell Eclipse to go through it so the single proxy connection stay
active.

/Thorbjørn

-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Tim Bronski
Sent: 14. november 2013 13:49
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for
System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi through VPN

My issue is not the fact that it times out, it's what happens when it does
and the lack of consistency. For example, when I'm editing a file in IFS and
go to save or click on a folder view and there's been a timeout I get an
error notification and I can click on "reconnect". When the connection is
made the save will happen. If I'm editing a source member and click "remote
actions/push selected" it will show me a progress bar that stalls out at 81%
and then hangs there for a period before giving me the error notification.
At this stage two things have happened - despite it saying there's no
connection - the remote member has been cleared, the modified date has been
changed and, if I reconnect, the save is NOT performed. I deliberately use a
push of single members at a time so I know which source member is now empty
and when I repush I can say "overwrite".

On 11/14/2013 6:05 AM, Mike Hockings wrote:

It is not just the VPN connection that can time-out the RSE connection.
If, for example, the VPN enters your company's intranet on one subnet
and the IBM i is on another subnet it is likely going though some sort of
bridge or router that can also time-out connections. If you do a
network trace (using Wireshark or the like) then I think what you will
see is a connection that the PC thinks is just fine having packets
rejected by the router because it has timed out and discarded
knowledge of the connection which results in RSE giving you the connection

lost message.

Mike

Mike Hockings, M.Eng., P.Eng.
IBM Rational Developer for System z and Power Systems Software
Technical Support IBM Canada Ltd. Laboratory hockings@xxxxxxxxxx voice
1-905-413-3199 T/L 313-3199 ITN 23133199




From: "Porterfield, Sean" <SPorterfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio
Client for System i & iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 2013-11-13 17:44
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi through VPN
Sent by: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx



I don't know if RDi V9 is different from V7 in this respect, but I got
frustrated with disconnections when I had V7 open all day. I had my
network administrator (me) extend the timeout for port 446, 449, 8741-8476
to 8 hours when the traffic was destined for our iSeries. Obviously
actual results will vary depending on VPN technology used, networks
involved, phase of the moon, sun spots, etc.
--
Sean Porterfield


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Rogerson
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 17:24
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for
System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi through VPN

Hi Kurt, I would be very interested in any responses. I work all the time
through vpn and my RDi V9 sessions are constantly dropped if inactive for
more than 10 to 15 minutes. I've gotten into the habit of stopping and
starting RDi if I've been away from the session for a while. It's usually
faster than trying to reconnect.

But I'd be very interested if anyone has a better solution.

Rob
On 2013-11-13 4:57 PM, Anderson, Kurt wrote:

I just made a move to the Boston area and am now telecommuting to work.

I wasn't heavy into RDi today, and it seemed that every time I went back
to it, it had timed out. I vaguely recall other complaints about RDi over
VPN. Is there anything I can do to keep the connection open? I don't
recall this ever happening to me when I would work from home on bad snow
days, but it could be that I spent most of my day in RDi.

-Kurt

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