If you work with firewalls long enough you will undoubtably run into this issue. I have a webserver in the DMZ that needs to talk to the database server on the inside. The connections need to be nailed up. In otherwords, I dont want the firewalls to close any connections that it feels may be idle as this causes errors in the aplpication. So, I cloned the service and attempted to change the TCP timeouts to zero. Then, I created a rule high up in the scheme which states, from this webserver to this database server, using this custom service, Accept. but when I look at the logs, the traffic isnt going through this rule and I have a suspicion that the timeouts are still occuring. When I look at my custom timeouts, they are now greyed with a 0-604800 setting on them. Any clue as to why my rule wont trigget and what this greyed out 0-604800 means ? I attached the picture Thanks, Justin
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