> We have tried sendgarbage both ways and it did not affect the timeout. > In the TCP/IP Keepalive options, the "interval 20" is 20 seconds, not 20 > minutes, so that is not too likely a suspect unless there is a 60 > consecutive intervals limit buried someplace else.
I think you might have said earlier, but is there any chance this traffic is passing through a firewall somehow? 20 minutes for idle connection RSET is the default setting for most of the mainstream firewall servers like the PIX and Nortel equivalent.