Re: Runaway logins, TCP/IP, UNIX SVR4, AT&T 3555

In article <D80EHo.9GH@nntpa.cb.att.com>, lou2@cbnews.cb.att.com (louis.avrami..jr) wrote: > INFORMIX folks, > > Most of the following probably is not INFORMIX related, but > I thought that I would post it here on the chance that someone may > have run across a similar problem. > > ... > I talked to an AT&T/GIS pre-sales tech rep the other day, and he suggested > checking some TCP/IP tunables on the UNIX side. > > I suspect that there is something on the PC TCP/IP side that isn't "right". > Something is keeping the TCP/IP connection up, even when the user's PC > is shut down. Could there be something wrong with SWS, or the 3555? It's most likely that you need to set the KEEPALIVE feature (or whatever it's called in version of TCP/IP) to something lower than the default. KEEPALIVE is essentially a heartbeat which checks to see if the other side of each TCP/IP connection is still there. Kevin Jernigan Emergent Technology Corporation (415) 567 8915 kjerniga@emergent.com http://www.emergent.com