On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 00:51 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > 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.... right - which is too long - the netgear and linksys routers time it out too quickly. That's why you drop it to 300. -sv
