RE: QINACTITV on TELNET sessions?

["Kahn, David" <KAHN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vern,

>  ...if you execute NETSTAT on the 400
>and take option 3, you'll see the connections there, including one (or
>more) with your PC's IP address. I believe that these connections will
>terminate according to the TELNET attributes. 

It's the AS/400 session I'm talking about. I can see the connections in
NETSTAT and they are remaining active indefinitely. The TELNET timeout
attribute is set as low as 10 minutes, but inactive sessions remain open
all day even though the idle time count continues to tick on.

Dave Kahn, TCO, Kazakstan
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kahn@tengizchevroil.com   (to November 25)
dkahn@cix.compulink.co.uk (from November 26)

>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Vern Hamberg [SMTP:hambergv@goldengate.net]
>Sent:  Saturday, November 08, 1997 8:17 AM
>To:    MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Cc:    KAHN@tengizchevroil.com
>Subject:       RE: QINACTITV on TELNET sessions?
>
>David
>
>At 09:35 PM 11/8/97 +0500, you wrote:
>
>>On a related note, we are just switching to the dreaded NT desktops and
>>are using the Client Access 5250 emulator over Telnet. The sessions are
>>not timing out after they reach the Telnet inactivity timeout limit. Has
>>anyone else experienced this, and do they know why? The Rumba sessions
>>under Win 3.1 always used to timeout correctly.
>
>Are you referring to the session on the PC or on the 400? I find that CA
>does not check for a live connection. This engenders many problems and some
>odd behavior, from my experience. OTOH, if you execute NETSTAT on the 400
>and take option 3, you'll see the connections there, including one (or
>more) with your PC's IP address. I believe that these connections will
>terminate according to the TELNET attributes. Unfortunately, CA does not
>try to determine, as I said, whether these things are live.
>
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