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I'm having a small problem where the eggdrop will disconnect me if I dont message it after about 10-15 minutes. I tried egghelp but they said it sounds like a problem with the shell provider. So here I am. If anyone knows whats going on I would be greatful. Here is a link to the original post on egghelp.

http://forum.egghelp.org/viewtopic.php?t=11707[/url]

I'm fairly confident when I say that its not a shell problem. Sounds like a timeout which is more likely an eggdrop issue, an issue with your PC or perhaps even your ISP.

And I am pretty confident this is no eggdrop issue, either. This most likely a "Router DCC" issue. Make sure your IRC client uses the local network IP to your router as DCC IP.

I'm fairly good with eggdrop and it sounds to me like conf file issue..

check the dcc timers and such,,I'm pretty sure you will find it there,,take a real good look because you can over look it real easy.

Hope this helps.......(Star).........

I've had this problem before. But most of the time it was either my pc or isp. Don't have this anymore.

/MOST/ cheap routers tend to drop connections from the NAT table within 10 minutes of not pushing any traffic. Try making your eggdrop push data within said time over dcc?

Echelon wrote:/MOST/ cheap routers tend to drop connections from the NAT table within 10 minutes of not pushing any traffic. Try making your eggdrop push data within said time over dcc?

Well in my case using the LAN-IP as NAT-IP for my IRC client fixed that issue with the idle connections, so this is the only thing I can advise people to resolve the issue. of course making the bot sending frequent data would be a possible workaround

De Kus wrote:

Echelon wrote:/MOST/ cheap routers tend to drop connections from the NAT table within 10 minutes of not pushing any traffic. Try making your eggdrop push data within said time over dcc?

Well in my case using the LAN-IP as NAT-IP for my IRC client fixed that issue with the idle connections, so this is the only thing I can advise people to resolve the issue. of course making the bot sending frequent data would be a possible workaround

If i remember correctly there is a anti-idle tcl script for eggdrop. It's located here http://www.egghelp.org

Why make anti-idle if you can make like an IRC Ping-Pong version like to eggdrop sends a ping to server it will be more better and will use lower bw :-) But yeah anti-idle sure helps too :-)