Chee Yang schrieb am 13.07.2010 um 01:38 (-0000):

>
> When I have opened a connection to Firebird server, the connection
> stay as long as the network connection is active for days, weeks,
> months or years.
>
> Can we configure Firebird server so that after 6 hours of idle for the
> connection, firebird server will close the connection at server side.

I initially thought that you could configure this using the OS TCP
keep-alive settings, but unless I'm mistaken those will only tear
down dead connections whereas you want to terminate alive but idle
connections.

Being not so enlightened, I found this enlightening:

http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_TCPConnectionManagementandProblemHandlingtheConnec-3.htm

Well, use a Firewall then, as Philip suggested?
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Michael Ludwig