automatic disconnects very troubling

[Alex Bradley]

FWIW, We had an issue with 5 minute TCP disconnect when using a hardware 
load-balancer (F5 Big-IP) in front of our RHEL servers.   The default 5 
minute timeout was changed on the load-balancer to "resolve" the issue.

McDougall, Marshall (FSH) wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com 
>> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Anne Moore
>> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 5:24 PM
>> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
>> Subject: automatic disconnects very troubling
>>
>> Hi All
>>
>> Whenever my users connect to my Red Hat Enterprise 4 system, they are
>> automatically disconnected after 1 minute of inactivity. This 
>> happens no
>> matter if they are connected to our Oracle instance or SSH or 
>> Telnet, or
>> anything. It's like the server "hangs-up" on them after no 
>> activity for a
>> minute or two.
>>
>> I ran tcpdump during and received this error on the disconnect:
>>
>> 17:20:21.362159 IP 192.168.8.90.56141 > myhost1.rdm.loc.ssh: . 
>> ack 233 win
>> 33303 <nop,nop,timestamp 2469825 98100123>
>>
>> I'm stumped! Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening?
>>
>> Thank you for your help! 
>>
>> Anne
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>
> Do you have multiple gateways defined on one physical server?
>
> Regards, Marshall
>
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