Re: (ASCEND) Little NAT problem on a P50

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

Gary Stern wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:53:48 -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> 
> >Gary Stern wrote:
> >>
> >> For the first time I am actually sitting behind a p50 running and
> >> being annoyed to hell with things like telnet & ftp dropping out
> >> after around an hour.
> >>
> >> We are not actually using dhcp on the machines effected (mm I could
> >> try that) although the p50 is set up as a server.
> >>
> >> The actual link is not dropping & is running a MP session into a
> >> tigris which I would luv to know a compatible stac type compression
> >> to use....
> >>
> >> Funny thing, It was happening previously and I seemed to clear the
> >> problem someway I don't know what I did :-(
> >>
> >> I had to change the ip address of the wan interface and then bingo
> >> the problem reocurred.
> >>
> >What revision level are you on?  We're running NAT on a P75 using 6.0.6,
> >and it's the best and most reliable (very) we've ever had it.
> >
> >More setup details might be useful, as well.
> 
> Probably one important bit I have been able to determine.....
> 
> It seems that the maximum time I can hold a single session (say
> telnet) is 1 hour from immediately after a previous session drop.
> 
> Why 1 hour, I'll be damned if I know, I have looked in the config for
> anything being 1 hour, 3600 seconds or anything near to that... nope
> cant find anything... help please !!
> 
You are *doing* something with the ftp or telnet sessions when they drop
out, right?  I mean, it's not an idle timer somewhere, is it?  Is this
to an ISP or your own equipment?
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