Check keep-alive in client, or apply patch in server

mfoss — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:26:11 +0000

simple wrote:

I've installed ejabberd on a ubuntu 7.10 machine, and all is going well except that every five minutes or so my account times out.
Is there any config file i need to edit to get it to send regular ping messages? (or increase the frequency of pings?)

Probably what timeouts is your connection to the server. It could be that ejabberd closes it (I don't remember if there's such a feature), or it could be that some network machine closes your TCP connection.

Some Jabber clients implement a keep-alive or ping feature that sends a small TCP packet to the server every few minutes.

Other solution is to tell ejabberd to send those packets to each client. Such feature is not included in ejabberd yet, but you can apply a patch from this bug report.

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Check keep-alive in client, or apply patch in server