We have a section of our building that keeps losing their telnet connection
unless they are typing, even then sometimes they still get dropped. As
far as I know, it only happens in one area of the building. Is there any
way to monitor the packets to see why the connection is being dropped? I'm
familar with tcpdump, but what would I be looking for? I don't think it's
our machine initiating the drop, my feeling is it's in the network switches
getting to our machine, but I'm not positive (autologout is not active).
>From what is described to me is, they will use telnet (from Windows), get
a connection (without a problem), login (without a problem), turn around to
get something, then turn back and have "connection to host lost" box on
their screen, having to start over.
Occaisionally, if they lose it while attempting a login, I get an error
message from tcpwrappers that someone at 0.0.0.0 attempted a login. and
the sia logs will log a ttl peer reset, which I have received prior when
our hub was powered off by accident or if an active line is pulled from
the hub.
Any ideas or things to check/try to track down the source of the
disconnection?
Running 3.2c (soon to be 4.0d) on a 2100 with C2.
George Gallen
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Accounting/Data Division
ggallen_at_slackinc.com
ph:856.848.1000 Ext 220
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Received on Wed Dec 08 1999 - 14:43:07 NZDT