Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 15:13:58 +0300 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledome.gr> To: Holtor <holtor@yahoo.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Telnet Operation Timed Out Message-ID: <200404141513.58410.nvass@teledome.gr> In-Reply-To: <20040414113653.27915.qmail@web11601.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040414113653.27915.qmail@web11601.mail.yahoo.com>
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You can change the non-established-connection-timeout using sysctl net.inet.tcp.keepinit=value. The default is 75000, at least on FreeBSD-4.9, which is probably a lot. Cheers, NikV On Wednesday 14 April 2004 14:36, Holtor wrote: > Hello All, > > How can I change the default telnet timeout value when connecting to remote > hosts? > > For example: > > # time telnet -N 1.2.3.4 > Trying 1.2.3.4... > telnet: connect to address 1.2.3.4: Operation timed out > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host > 0.000u 0.008s 1:15.01 0.0% 0+0k 1+0io 6pf+0w > > The timeout seems to be 75 sec, how can we make this 15 or 30 seconds? I > have been searching google to no avail but did get hints that this might be > a TCP default of somekind. > > If anyone has any idea please do e-mail back but include my in the reply as > I'm not yet subscribed to the list. > > Thanks, > > Holt G. > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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