[syslog-ng] increasing number of TCP connections from same number of remote hosts

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Fri Jan 25 11:15:34 CET 2008


On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 14:34 +0100, Nagy Daniel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It was a firewall problem... There is a firewall between the server
> and the clients. The firewall breaks TCP connections after a specified
> idle time. That's why the clients re-establish the connections.
> 
> Would it possible to include TCP keepalive feature in syslog-ng?
> This way the server could check the established connections
> regurarly and tear down the broken ones.
> 

It is included, but you need to explicitly enable it using the
so_keepalive(yes) option.

-- 
Bazsi



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