What does the setting do? can it harm other applications?

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM
>> \CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\keepalivetime
>> setting DWORD:DECIMAL 7200000 for servers that need it


> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:23:33 -0400, Stan Horwitz <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU>
> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> Try setting NSR_KEEP_ALIVE to 15 instead of 30. The optimum setting
>> depends on how your firewall is configured.
>>
>> On your Windows clients, you might also set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM
>> \CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\keepalivetime
>> setting DWORD:DECIMAL 7200000 for servers that need it
>>
>>
> Shouldn't that be 900000 to be equivalent to 15 minutes?

It depends on your firewall. In most cases, we have not had to go  
that route at all on our servers, but a few have required it. This is  
what Legato tech support recommended for us when we had ongoing  
problems backing up and recovering data across a particular firewall.

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