Telnet sessions stick around

[Alan Cox]

> UPS so it wasn't affected but all the windows pc's crashed.  What's
> interesting is that even though everyone was off the network all the
> processes kept on running...  I tried modifying values in
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive* but that did not seem to help.  Thanks in
> advance!

Its supposed to work like that. The Linux box doesnt know if the windows PC's
went down or you tripped over the lan. After 2 hours or when the boxes
come back and reset the connection it will kill it.
 
Alan


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