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You receive a notification that long-lasting Telnet connections to a mainframe are dropped after an hour of inactivity.

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2022 11:29 am
by answerhappygod
You receive a notification that long-lasting Telnet connections to a mainframe are dropped after an hour of inactivity. Reviewing SmartView Tracker shows the packet is dropped with the error:

Unknown established connection -
How do you resolve this problem without causing other security issues? Choose the BEST answer.

A. Increase the service-based session timeout of the default Telnet service to 24-hours.
B. Ask the mainframe users to reconnect every time this error occurs.
C. Increase the TCP session timeout under Global Properties > Stateful Inspection.
D. Create a new TCP service object on port 23 called Telnet-mainframe. Define a service-based session timeout of 24-hours. Use this new object only in the rule