Re: STRPASTHR sessions via AnyNet timeouts (CPF8907)

[Neil Palmer <neilp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark,

Thanks for the suggestion, but as I mentioned at another customer site 
where we had a port open for Telnet as well as 397 for AnyNet, the 
STRPASTHR via AnyNet woudl time out after 5 to 6 minutes, but a TELNET 
session woudl stay up for hours.  Both with the same settings for TCP keep 
alive.

..Neil




"Mark S. Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx> 
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2003/12/06 19:09



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Hi, Neil:

Try checking what is their default for TCP "keep alive" ...

Prompt the CHGNETA command on their system; the first parameter
is TCPKEEPALV ... you might need to increase this value... (but I am
not sure how this may or may not "interact" with AnyNet...)

Hope that might help? (no guarantees, though)...

Mark

----- Original Message -----
> We have a few customers with Internet connections that have allowed only
> port 397 for AnyNet to come in to their iSeries, and only from the
> specific IP address of our system.  We therefore have to use STRPASTHR 
to
> get an interactive session on their system, and SNADS also runs via
> AnyNet.  We have no problem with SNADS - files are sent without problem,
> but the interactive sessions seem to constantly "timeout" after several
> minutes and the session is ended (with a CPF8907 at the originating
> system).  Has anyone found a way to prevent this timeout problem with
> STRPASTHR via AnyNet?  I have used the default MODE(BLANK) and also
> MODE(#INTER) with no difference.  I'm wondering if there are some 
specific
> settings on a mode description that might help, or some other way of
> solving this.  At one customer site we had to resort to opening a 
specific
> port for TELNET - and the timeout problem disappeared.  We would however
> prefer to use just port 397 for AnyNet if we can solve this annoying
> timeout problem.
>
> Neil Palmer