Re: [cobalt-users] Timeouts with SSH and Telnet on RaQ4 -- Please Speculate!

[Jason Woods <cobalt-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This sounds like a timeout issue on the NAT, not the Raq.  Note, this is
a Good Thing.

You do not want NAT connections lingering around forever, therefore
Linux (and others) close them after a timeout period.  Since you are
behind a firewall connecting to DMZ servers, you are possibly also
running NAT on the firewall.  Your Raq2 might have a keepalive going on
the connections.  If you configure one for the Raq3 and Raq4 servers,
your problem will go away (keepalive = data "ping" on the connection
once in awhile).

Some client software also has this ability (which is where I run
keepalives from).  PuTTY is one.

Glenn Parsons wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I seem to be having ridiculously short timeouts on my RaQ4s in Telnet or SSH
> sessions. We used to connect via Telnet, but moved Telnet to an unusual port
> (for just such an emergency) and now connect via SSH. I thought this would
> resolve the timeouts, but no such luck.
> 
> Funny thing is this seems to happen with the RaQ4s mostly. I can't remember
> if I had this problem with the RaQ3??? I can connect to my RaQ2 via SSH
> almost all day, however. These machines I am referring to are both in FRONT
> of a firewall and I connect from behind the firewall. Originally I thought
> it was the firewall, but why would my RaQ2 allow the connections to linger
> while the 4s will not?
> 
> TIA,
> Glenn
> 
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