Interesting thought. Isn't the keepalive packet supposed to prevent that from being a problem?
Regards, Richard Schuh -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 2:30 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: TCPNJE > 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.
