Re: Idle Time

Scott Black (admin@emporium.on.ca)
Tue, 27 May 1997 14:59:11 -0400

At 12:45 PM 5/27/97 -0500, you wrote:
>I am experiencing a problem with idle timeouts and users ftp'ing. It
>seems as if when some users are ftp'ing and doing nothing the portmaster
>does not detect this as activity and disconnects the user after the
>specified timeout period (20 mins). This does not happen with all of my
>customers, just a few. We use multitech mt2834mr's and microcom isporte
>modems. Any suggestions on what the problem might be and/or how to
>correct it? Thanks.

Make sure it's not a client side timer in Win95. It is enabled by default
and only seems to monitor keyboard and mouse as 'activity'.

Scott

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