[olug] Network connections being killed

[Kevin]

Firewalls are a good idea. Any network equipment that has to remember
network connections, like routers performing NAT might do that too.

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 14:23, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com> wrote:
> Our connections to our Avaya AES boxes keep dying at one hour of inactivity
> (such as when a person is at lunch). Avaya support says their software
> shouldn't be killing the connection, but it is happening consistently, and
> it looks like the connection is being killed by the AES server itself. I
> wondered if it could be something on the OS level.
>
> I've been tracing the network traffic with Wireshark and TSAPI Spy, and
> we've been checking firewall logs, etc. So far we haven't been able to come
> up with anything.
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:
>
>> > Out of curiosity, is there anything on a default RHEL install that might
>> > kill inactive network connections?
>>
>> Not that I've ever heard of.  Unless you mean ssh connections,
>> for which there's a timeout specified in the sshd config file.
>> But generic, protocol-agnostic network connections?  Nope.
>>
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