Firewall question:

[Stephen Dawes]

Kirk, is there any to adjust the timeout value for the firewall?



Stephen Dawes B.A. B.Sc.
Web Business Office, The City of Calgary
PHONE:  (403) 268-5527. FAX: (403) 268-6423
E-MAIL ADDRESS:  sdawes at gov.calgary.ab.ca 




> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
> [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Kirk Wood
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 9:46 AM
> To: Speakup at Braille. Uwo. Ca
> Subject: Re: Firewall question:
> 
> 
> The keep alive packet for any connection is on the same port as the
> connection. The difference you are seeing is that the firewall times out
> the connection sooner then the keep alive packets are sent. This isn't
> uncommon. In fact, often times it is done intentionally to prevent you
> from breaching the firewall with "safe" looking programs that happen to
> keep an open connection and then let whatever you want through.
> 
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> Kirk Wood
> Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
> 
> Nothing is hard if you know the answer or are used to doing it.
> 
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