Hey John,

I can't think of a reason why a managed (or unmanaged for that matter) 
switch would affect the timeout.  There must be something else 
coincidentally going on here.   The switch just gets traffic from Port A 
to Port B.  Firewalls will muck with timeouts; we've dealt with that on 
a bunch of our firewalls, but switches and routers typically do not mess 
with sessions, in fact they don't even really have any knowledge of a 
session - they just take a packet in and send it somewhere else.

Is it all of your users, or just one or 2 specific offices?

-dan


Dan Brisson
Network Engineer
University of Vermont
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On 8/24/2011 3:22 PM, John Cooley wrote:
> Good Afternoon:
>
> We use Oracle Calendar for virtually all of our employees on and off 
> campus..  I am aware of the magical 17 minute setting to eliminate the 
> "server unavailable" message, and have adjusted accounts accordingly.  
> Up until now, we have been using Netgear switches in the smaller 
> offices and have had no problem keeping a connection.  Due to the 
> change to VoIP phones, we have started to upgrade to managed 
> switches.  In doing so, we have started dropping our calendar 
> connections again.  Hopefully, being a managed switch, I can make some 
> adjustment to lengthen the timeout on the switch.  Can anyone tell me 
> what setting I might adjust on the managed switch, to get back on the 
> other side of the timeout cutoff?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> John