VTY Line Timeout

[quadrabe]

We're trying to TFTP a new IOS to a router.
However, the file transfer goes quite slow (even though we've increased the TFTP block size) and we get kicked off the router after about 30 minutes, "Line timeout expired".
Even though we've configured the vty lines with exec-timeout 0.

Are we missing something here?

[Seb Rupik · Accepted solution]

Hi there,

It doesn't answer your question, but is there any reason why you are not using FTP or SCP instead of TFTP? What model router are using using, both protocols are probably supported by the OS.

cheers,

Seb.

[quadrabe]

Indeed scp makes the transfer go way faster and we can make it before the timeout.
After some more research I think the timeout is initiated by our software (SecureCRT).
There is an anti-idle option which I have found. Now even TFTP works.