[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ subscriber loses connection across firewalls after long idle

Tue Jul 3 15:04:56 BST 2012

Oh, and you can also re-configure your firewall to stop that idle timer.

Mark Steele, CISSP, CSM, GPEN
Bering Media Inc.

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Mark Steele <msteele at beringmedia.com>wrote:

> It's probably your firewall. Many firewalls have built-in idle timers.
> Your clients are likely in a consuming loop where there are no messages,
> and hence the idle timer kicks in and kills your connections.
>
> Some options:
>
>    - You can try getting your Rabbit server and clients to utilize TCP
>    keepalives
>    - Setup libkeepalive on your server
>    - Use AMQP heartbeats (probably the best option) to keep packets
>    flowing.
>
>
> Mark Steele, CISSP, CSM, GPEN
> Bering Media Inc.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Deelo55 <dwayne.dsouza at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'll need to allocate some time to this...I'm not very familiar with
>> network
>> traffic analysis.
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