Re: (PM) Setting idle-timeout to 0, works for PPP users but not

Jake Messinger (jake@ams.com)
Wed, 19 May 1999 10:14:37 -0500 (CDT)

On Tue, 18 May 1999, Kevin Smith wrote:

: with Login Service:telnet have unlimited time on a host. The S1-3 interfaces
:have an idle time of 0, and the user has an idle and session time of 0. No
:matter what port they dial into, as soon as 15 minutes idle time has

If you have the users' timeout to zer0 and the port timeout to zer0, then it
can only be the user timing out.

:settings on a PPP user works. I can stay on forever and never get kicked off.

Cuz PPP users are typically running something in background that prevents
idle like icq, or Netscape AOL instant mashpotatoing.

:The user only has a dial-up (under DOS) Comm program so login user is the only
:option available. I have tested this with three different client machines going
:to different hosts and 15 minutes is the longest I can get before getting kicked
:out. I upgraded ComOS from 3.5 to 3.7.2c4 in hopes that would fix it, but it
:didn't.

3 different machines? Same software? What are you using? Hyperterm?

I have login users that stay logged in for DAYS. They are usually using
Procom Plus.

Here is one:

ams> sh user ams
Username: ams Type: Login User
Host: default Login Service: telnet (23)

No idle timeout.

Have you tried setting the idle timeout to 240 to see if you still get timed
out in 15?

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