This is a general response, not specific to GnatBox or VPNs so it may or may not help .....
What I've found over time is that some products in the firewall / VPN space have idle timeouts which harvest idle connections. One product I had to get thru seemed to trigger the harvesting on a time schedule somewhat dependant on load ... so when it needed more connection 'slots' it would harvest an idle connection. The work around I found was to use SSH and X11 port forwarding. Then I would run xclock on the unix system to keep a low speed data flow going on that connection. The ping test someone suggested may not prove much since it isn't withing the connection. If you were to run ping a 15 second interval on the UNIX system in the FacetWin connection, for say 20 minutes and the terminal session stayed up, you would add evidence to support this theory. Of course, during that test you wouldn't be doing anything useful, but I suspect you could have two terminal emulator windows open if needed. Dave Morris On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Richard Ashley wrote: > I have some remote users running WinXP with static IP's, using the VPN > software to connect to my GB-1000. We are trying to allow them to use a > terminal emulator (FacetWin) to connect to a unix box on the local network. > Everything works, but the terminal connection times-out after 5-10 minutes of > inactivity. I've contacted the good people at FacetCorp who claim it is not > the fault of their software. I tend to believe them because users on the > local network don't have this problem. > > Is the VPN a likely suspect for the terminal connection timing-out, or is she > a red herring? ------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
