Re: (PM) Disconnect problems

Russell Heilling (russellh@netdirect.net.uk)
Mon, 2 Feb 1998 19:50:25 -0000

Ignore my last post, I was misremembering. The problem I was
thinking of was on older versions of the USR TC NetServer Code
(which is basically ComOS, so it could have affected PMs too, but
I haven't seen any documentation implying that it did)

I just tracked down the reference I was looking for in the release notes
for version 3.2 of the NetServer code, where it was fixed.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Heilling <russellh@netdirect.net.uk>
To: portmaster-users@livingston.com <portmaster-users@livingston.com>
Date: 02 February 1998 19:01
Subject: Re: (PM) Disconnect problems




>I seem to remember that there used to be a problem that only
>traffic _into_ the portmaster was resetting the idle counter, so
>if a user was sat downloading a large file (all traffic going out of
>the portmaster) they would get disconnected after the idle
>timeout, whereas if they were web browsing, with traffic going
>in both directions they would stay on fine.
>
>Can anyone confirm whether this has been fixed yet?
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>       Russell Heilling  --  NetDirect Internet Ltd
>   Tel: +44 (0) 181 293 7000 Fax: +44 (0) 181 293 6000
>             email: russellh@netdirect.net.uk
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tom Swenson <tom@netconx.net>
>To: portmaster-users@livingston.com <portmaster-users@livingston.com>
>Date: 02 February 1998 05:25
>Subject: (PM) Disconnect problems
>
>
>Is it just me? When I started up as an ISP with a new PM3 back in May, I
>installed an idle-timeout. Were were having lot's of disconnect problems, so
I
>removed it, not knowing if that was the cause. Then after numerous OS
changes,
>though my disconnect problems were few, I put back in my idle-timeout. I am
>now having many customers who are having disconnect problems. Some have
switch
>over from other providers where, of course, they didn't have any problems.
I'm
>about to take out the idle-timeout again to help. Just thought I'd post a
>message and see anyone else has seen this.
>
>
>
>Tom Swenson
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