From: Joseph D. Phillips (jphillips@ufcwdrugtrust.org)
Date: Thu Jun 10 2004 - 14:17:18 GMT-3
As I mentioned before, I have remote users who are Telnetting to our central office's AIX box.
To secure the connections, I am having them all go to an Aventail SSL/VPN appliance, which creates the VPN tunnels for the users and proxies their Telnet traffic to the RS6000 running the app they need to do lookups.
My problem is that the users will walk away for a few minutes and find their Telnet sessions have vanished.
There are no inactivity timeouts either within the custom application to which the users are Telnetting, and the appliance's timeout is 720 minutes, so that's not it, either.
Since we were talking about MTUs earlier, I checked our edge router here. The interfaces are all 1500 bytes, but we're not doing tunneling or anything fancy. It's just a fractional T-1 to our ISP.
Have any of you heard of this before? Is there anything particular about encrypting Telnet traffic such that sessions would break after a certain period of inactivity?
Joseph D. Phillips, CCDP MCSE; Network Manager
Southern California United Food and Commercial Workers Unions and Drug & General Sales Employers Trust Funds
2220 Hyperion Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90027
jphillips@ufcwdrugtrust.org ; office: 323-666-8910 ext 247; cell: 562-761-7257; fax: 323-663-9495
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