> and running, all it takes is a single ping occasionally to keep the
> connection alive. This is not at all practical for those of us who
> provide unlimited access (or packages with very large amounts of time).
>
> I spoke with Brian Rice at InterOp in Atlanta and he said that the
> engineers were unenthusiastic about implementing that and didn't see the
> need.....maybe they should subscribe to this list and hear from those of
> us that want this feature? :)
> How about it MZ, wanna express our desire for this feature as well?
The best way to do this would be to allow the application of a filter
to the activity timeout (the same way you can do it to ptrace). This
would allow you to filter out everything but, say, telnet, FTP and WWW
traffic. You should also be able to completely ignore ICMP traffic if
you want.
It would be a *huge* blessing.
-Dave Andersen
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