RE: [nsp] Locked vty lines

From: Kellerman, Bert (BKellerman@hsacorp.net)
Date: Tue Aug 29 2000 - 16:04:51 EDT


You might also want to check out 'service tcp-keepalives-in'

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Anderson [mailto:craig@xtime.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 8:02 AM
To: Mark Borchers
Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [nsp] Locked vty lines

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Mark Borchers wrote:

> I'm interested in learning what circumstances are known
> to make a single vty session cause the idle lines to
> lock up.
>
> I've recently had a situation where a hanging vty connection
> resulted in the router not to respond to telnet connection attempts.
>
> All other services were unaffected, and access was still available
> on the con and aux ports.

<--( SNIP )-->

Helu,

   Do you have an 'exec-timeout' set? I've found that the exec-timeout
will remedy this most of the time... i.e. 'exec-timeout 1 0' ( pretty
reasonable ).

-- Craig



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