A friend of mine, also a member of this list, is in Iraq and obtained  
a satellite connection.  He's providing wireless connectivity for the  
people on the base, and is using an iDirect Netmodem II satellite  
modem.  Unfortunately, this device has a 1024 session limit, and if  
this limit is exceeded, the thing crashes.  It's a known issue, and  
iDirect has not fixed it yet.

Behind this thing, he's got a linux firewall doing NAT for everyone  
behind it.  He's blocking P2P, and other things that take up massive  
amounts of sessions, but he's got quite a few HTTP sessions that just  
hang open doing nothing.  Is there a way to force the linux box to  
close these sessions down after like 15 seconds of no activity and  
send a RST to the remote host?

~jay