Re: (PM) Modem user won't time out...

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Tue, 2 Jun 1998 12:11:41 -0600

Mark A. Edwards uttered...

>One of my modem clients has repeatedly connected and forgot about the
>connection. Her modem stays online forever, even though I have everybody
>set for a 15 minute timeout. Her computer is a Windows computer. It's
>probably on a little LAN.
>
>Will the Idle-Timeout always fail to work properly for modem users who have
>a network? How can I prevent this... Is there somewhere to filter these
>packets?
>
Have you tried a session time out? Not just an Idle?

jer

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