From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 1 15:17:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inc.net (mailhost.inc.net [204.95.160.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6AF814E1C for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 15:16:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from parrothd@midwest.net) Received: from chi1.nucleusconsulting.com (chi1.nucleusconsulting.com [207.250.168.11]) by inc.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA26536; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 17:15:54 -0600 (CST) Received: from labntserver1.nucleusconsulting.com by chi1.nucleusconsulting.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.0.1460.8) id X6P20L0H; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:58:43 -0600 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19991201171424.00b0f100@midwest.net> X-Sender: parrothd@midwest.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 17:14:24 -0600 To: Tani Hosokawa , "Paul T. Root" From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" Subject: Re: timeout on telnetd Cc: Questions FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <19991201145152.I5847@riverstyx.net> References: <199912012232.QAA28882@iaces.com> <199912012232.QAA28882@iaces.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If nothing else works maybe you can edit the source code for telentd and see if you can modify the default timeout easily. I did this with ping so I could change the default behavior, it was much easier than trying to fix my perl script.. :) At 02:51 PM 12/1/99 -0800, Tani Hosokawa wrote: >You could use netcat to open up a permanent connection... might be easier. > >On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 04:32:01PM -0600, Paul T. Root wrote: >> Is there a way to turn off the 300 second timeout of telnetd. >> >> I need to test some Firewall-1 timeout stuff and need a connection >> to stay up indefinately without any keyboard hits. Jonathan E. Lyons parrothd@midwest.net Nucleus Consulting ICQ # 14226912 www.nucleusconsulting.com Cell # 773-251-1967 A+, MCSE, CCNA, FreeBSD! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message