RDP Disconenct

[Matthew Harris [MVP]]

Enable keep alives. That'll solve your problem.

support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;216783

The problem is that some routers/firewalls will close a
socket that doesn't have traffic come across it. Because
terminal services is a low bandwidth protocol, it won't
send any packets across the wire if the connection/user is
idle. Thus, the firewall thinks the connection is dead,
and terminated the socket.

Enabling keep alives will send a heartbeat packet ever so
often to the client to make sure the client is still
there. This will let the firewall/router also know to
keep that socket open.

-M

 

[Derek Daly]

I have also experienced this problem on my Dlink DSL 500 and 504 ADSL
routers, the keep alive did not work 4 me, I contacted Dlink TS but they
insisted that the problem was not to do with the router however, once I
upgraded the router firmware to the latest revision the problem disapeared.

Derek