>Hi All, > >It seems there are some routers floating around that break idle TCP connections after a specified amount of time. >For example: "Sonicwall devices have that feature to close established connections when they hit a predefined timeout value >with no data passing through." > >This causes some issues with Gnome's Nautilus/GVFS and sftp connections that I'm trying to handle more gracfully. The problem is I >dont have a router that has this behaviour so I'm looking for a way to simulate it using iptables on my PC. >I have read the thread about this from 2011 http://www.spinics.net/lists/netfilter/msg51963.html but it looks like a solution wasnt provided >as the usecase didnt call for doing what was requested. >I however DO want to break the established TCP connections. Does anyone know how I can do this? I don't mind if I need to edit code >and rebuild as this is just for testing perposes so I will be reverting once I'm finished. > >Thanks for your time, >Tim To be a little bit clearer I want to causse the behaviour described in section 2.4 here: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/TCP-Keepalive-HOWTO/overview.html Where the TCP connection is still thought to be active to the peers but the proxy/firewall has no knowlegde on the connection and so the connection breaks up. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
