Re: Problem w/IP_MASQ & ssh/telnet?

Gregory P. Smith (greg@nas.nasa.gov)
Thu, 20 May 1999 14:05:54 -0700

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> See this myself. SCMIIW (Someone Correct Me If I'm Wrong <g>), but the
> kernel has a 15 minute timeout. What happens is the masq box just drops
> the masq entry and causes the connection to be dropped as well.
>
> run ipchains -M -L
> that will show you what connections are masq'd and will also tell you when
> they will expire (if no more data is sent over the connection).

Similarly, the various timeouts can be changed using ipchains. I set
mine to three hours for open TCP connections.

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