[SunHELP] Connection Lost

[Kurt Huhn]

> What would cause a telnet session to just drop after a
> few mintues?  If I am in an active session (even as
> root) I will get dropped, then if I try to re-telnet
> it refuses the connection. Then if I do a 'who' I
> still see the session (hence the question the other
> day)...........
> any ideas?

Firewall maybe?  If theres a firewall between your systems, it might be
configured to terminate TCP sessions after a set time.  It might also be a
router - some routers have rudimentary firewalling capabilities, and also
inherently have the ability to "time out" sessions.

Kurt