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Date:      Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:14:12 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Phusion <phusion@thuntek.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Telnetd locking up and closing connection
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980220151310.17705M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19980219213118.00699a0c@thuntek.net>

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On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Phusion wrote:

> Hello, I was just curious as to why telnet connections to my FreeBSD
> 2.2.5-stable box are closing after a certain amount of idle time.  Is there
> some sort of idle limit that I can specify?

To add on to David's reply, Some shells have a settable timeout (ie tcsh). 
Also the ppp client will close the connection after a timeout (the default
there is 300s). 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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