From: Shafagh Zandi (szmetal@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Oct 12 2007 - 21:02:35 ART
Benedict,
What about your connection to R1, is it from console then to R2? I mean, try
it using telnet to R1 connecting to a vty then make a session to R2 from R1.
Regards,
Shafagh Zandi
On 10/13/07, Benedict Munyao <bmunyao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I labbed it up as follows:
>
> R1--------------------------R2
> 155.6.0.1 155.6.0.2
>
>
> R1
> lin con 0
> session-timeout 1
>
> telnet 155.6.0.2
> >R2
>
> With this configuration, the session disconnects after 1 minute and I'm
> returned to idle state on R1.
>
> Next I moved the command to vty lines as follows:
>
> lin con 0
> no session-timeout 1
> lin vty 0 4
> session-timeout 1
>
> telnet 155.6.0.2
> >R2
>
> This time it did not time out, unless I used exec-timeout 1 on vty lines
> at
> R2.
>
> Perhaps other scenarios produce other results, but this led me to the
> conclusion that the command affects outgoing sessions only when set on the
> local console line. I could not make sense of part of the explanation on
> doccd for this command.
>
> Sincerely
> Benedict Munyao
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