[OpenSER-Users] TCP better than UDP??

Atle Samuelsen clona at cyberhouse.no
Tue Nov 13 09:05:15 CET 2007


Hi,

* Juha Heinanen <jh at tutpro.com> [071113 08:51]:
> Klaus Darilion writes:
> 
>  > Does NAT devices keep TCP bindings open for 20 minutes if there is no 
>  > traffic?
> 
> yes, most nats have much longer tcp timeouts than udp timeouts.

... and there are also some routers and sysadmins without mentioning
names that keep TCP timers to less then 30 seconds before they kill the
tcp connection if it's idle. 

- Atle

(who has bad experience with tcp keepalive above 30 seconds...)




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