ZyXEL Communications 792H manual Factors Influencing Choices for Timeout Values

Prestige 792H G.SHDSL Router

10.8.1 Factors Influencing Choices for Timeout Values

The factors influencing choices for timeout values are the same as the factors influencing choices for threshold values – see section 9.4.2. Click Timeout for either Local Network or Internet.

	Figure 10-7 Timeout
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
	Table 10-6 Timeout
LABEL	DESCRIPTION
TCP Timeout Values
Connection Timeout	Type the number of seconds (default 30) for the Prestige to wait for a TCP
	session to reach the established state before dropping the session.
FIN-Wait Timeout	Type the number of seconds (default 60) for a TCP session to remain open after
	the firewall detects a FIN-exchange (indicating the end of the TCP session).
Idle Timeout	Type the number of seconds (default 3600) for an inactive TCP connection to
	remain open before the Prestige considers the connection closed.
UDP Idle Timeout	Type the number of seconds (default 60) for an inactive UDP connection to
	remain open before the Prestige considers the connection closed.
ICMP Timeout	Type the number of seconds (default 60) for an ICMP session to wait for the
	ICMP response.

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