Re: reset connection

Hi!,

> This is the problem:
> Host A open a connection to Host B and stay idle. after a amount of time
> and external source closes the connection without the knownledge of the
> Host A (like a firewall). Then , Host A tries again to comunicate with
> Host B but hangs up in the read() function.
>
> This is the problem that I'm having working with Oracle in a host behing a
> Firewall that closes the connections that are idle about 5 minutes.

Is it possible that you can implement some sort of "heart-beat" functionality which executes some request every 5 minutes to keep the network link active ?

See ya

Dean Thompson

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