From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 21:05:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA24333 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 21:05:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA24327 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 21:05:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA20906; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 22:00:50 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604040500.WAA20906@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: rlogin and keepalives To: rberndt@nething.com (Randy Berndt) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 22:00:49 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <2.2.16.19960403175846.2727caaa@nething.com> from "Randy Berndt" at Apr 3, 96 06:00:16 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > How do I set an rlogin session to use keepalives? I have a problem with a > remote site doing an rlogin, then having a problem with their machine, and > the rlogin process stays up. I need to have them drop off after, say, 10 > minutes of disconnection (not just inactivity - if they are still there, > just not typing, I want the link to stay up). I know about setting > net.net.tcp.keepidle and maxidle, I just don't know how to start the rlogin > so it uses them. Also, if I change the default values, will I screw up > something else? By installing the patch that adds the "net.tcp.keepalive" option that was posted to -hackers today. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.