On 3 Mar 2005 at 7:18, Denis Sodol wrote:

>After the connection to the Firebird server (1.5.1) is idle for some
>time (like 20 or 30 minutes, really hard to determine exact time), i'm
>getting the following error:
>
>The host(s) and clients are on Windows XP Professional and Windows
>2000 Server.

They are not guilty most likely. Look at your network devices:
switches and routers. Some of them are too smart and used to drop
inactive connections.

>Firebird conf file mention some 2-hour default interval ("If you do
>not like default 2-hour keepalive timeout then adjust your server OS
>settings appropriately."), but in my case it's not even close to 2
>hours - like I mentioned earlier it's about 30 minutes, probably even
>less.

This is related only to discovering lost connections when client
application has been aborted.
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SY, Dimitry Sibiryakov.