From: hfphillips@iname.com (Harry Phillips)
Subject: Re: loosing client connections in novell
Date: 2000/06/07
Message-ID: #1/1
References: 
Newsgroups: fido.novell

It sounds like the watchdog packets are timing out the connections.

The server has a 5 min limit and it will test the connection if it has
heard nothing. It will then send 1 packet every minute for 10 minutes,
if the device doesn't respond it will kill that connection.

These values are all the defaults of course, you could try increasing
the number from every 1 minute to 2 and the number to 20 packets, that
way they will get up to 45 minutes before disconnection (5 + 2 x 20)

Harry

On Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:37:54 -0700, "Roy Seine" 
wrote:

>Hi
>When some of our workers go on 15 min breaks, they come back to their
>machines, and they have lost network connection, and the machines are
>frozen, we usually have to hit the reset button to get them to go again
>Here are the specs on our network setup
>Novell 3.2 server
>100 MBs network speed, using IPX
>Use TCP/IP to proxy server for internet connection
>Clients are Windows 98 workstations running novell client v. 3.1
>
>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
>
>tia
>Roy
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