[PENNMUSH] [OT] WRT54GS router disconnections

[Shawn]

Philip Mak wrote:
> I recently got a Linksys WRT54GS Wireless-G Broadband Router with
> SpeedBooster.
>
> But now all my TCP/IP connections (e.g. MUSH) get disconnected if they
> idle for 10 minutes!
>
> Does anyone know how can I make the router not drop my idle
> connections?
>   

Linksys routers are known for this; they believe that the the web is the 
whole internet, and thus don't have good support for persistent 
connections. You might be able to change the timeout through the 
router's administration tools if it has any. Depending on what OS you 
run the mush on, connections have an 'is the connection still open?' 
ping done every, um, 15 minutes? In the not-yet-released 1.8.0p12 and 
1.8.1p7, the interval is a config option and supported on more OSes (In 
the meantime, it's in mysocket.c's set_keepalive() function). There's 
also the client-side IDLE option already mentioned,  or a softcode loop 
to send text every few minutes.