On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 05:03:21PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > Anyway, are we sure that the timeout isn't a "legitimate" timeout? > I bet I know what it is. > I bet the session is remaining open and being killed by the netgear for > inactivity/use. Wouldn't that only be an issue if no actual data were sent? It might explain why I can't reproduce at my house, though -- I have an older but nicer SMC NAT box rather than a cheap Netgear/Linksys thing, and it may just be handling things more gracefully. > try putting: net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time = 300 > in the users /etc/sysctl.conf file and restarting their machine. Hmmm -- the default is 7200.... -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 77 degrees Fahrenheit.