In article <[log in to unmask]>, Paolo Tealdi wrote: (edited) >when i try to connect to MPE through the telnet card (from an Uinx-based host) >it connects very well but there is a timeout of 5 minutes if there isn't work >on the connection.After this timeout the connection is broken. > >The annoying fact is that this happens only for certain Unix servers ... (i.e. >Freebsd 2.1.0 unix based ) and not for all systems that we have (Digital Unix >HPUX etc ) .... > >P.S. The same hangup happens when i do a login to Freebsd unix based >system from a serial port connected to the serial card of DTC. You may wish to refer this question to the comp.sys.bsd.freebsd.misc newsgroup. My gut feeling is that this is a FreeBSD configuration setting. I'm just now learning my way around FreeBSD, and can't give you a definite answer. However, you might try this: Check the setting for the FreeBSD shell idle timeout. 5 minutes sounds suspiciously like a common shell timeout setting. --Jim