topic timeout conn in Network Security https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/timeout-conn/m-p/1344099#M825960 <P>what would the be side of effects of setting 'timeout conn' to 5hrs? beside the possibly of running out of connection resources. anything security related?</P><P></P><P>i have a client that as a web base report that takes 5 hours to run. things where fine when the server was in-house but its now in a colo.</P> Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:20:16 GMT deno 2019-03-11T16:20:16Z timeout conn https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/timeout-conn/m-p/1344099#M825960 <P>what would the be side of effects of setting 'timeout conn' to 5hrs? beside the possibly of running out of connection resources. anything security related?</P><P></P><P>i have a client that as a web base report that takes 5 hours to run. things where fine when the server was in-house but its now in a colo.</P> Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:20:16 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/timeout-conn/m-p/1344099#M825960 deno 2019-03-11T16:20:16Z Re: timeout conn https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/timeout-conn/m-p/1344100#M825971 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I've had situations where I've had to increase the timeout conn setting to 4hrs or even 8hrs to keep telnet sessions from being dropped during the day.</P><P></P><P>The main issue is the possibility of something happening that opens a ton of sessions without correctly closing them. That could lead to processor/memory usage, and eventual crash.... Although I've never seen it. </P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:07:54 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/timeout-conn/m-p/1344100#M825971 cmcbride 2009-10-02T04:07:54Z