Re: System monitor question RE: Wyse terminals

[Bob Rasmussen <ras at anzio dot com>]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Angela Burdiss wrote:

> I have my dumb terminal attached to a Lantronix box.  I am considering getting
> rid of it because it is the only thing I have attached to the Lantronix box.
> I have several PCs in the room that I can use, but I am conconcerned about the
> telnet session timing out when I do software upgrades. I am interested in what
> others have done or recommend.

You should be able to set up your telnet so that it does not timeout.

Timeouts, usually during periods of inactivity, can be imposed by the Unix
you're logged in to, or by any router, firewll, etc. along the way. It is
common practice in telnet (and SSH) clients to avoid this by setting some
sort of keepalive timer. This causes the client to periodically send a
do-nothing packet to the server, thereby making the router (or whatever)
think it is active.

In the case of Anzio (our telnet client), this is set in
Communicate:Network:Stayalive.

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