On Aug 9, 2007, at 9:33 AM, Adam Gibson wrote:

> Michael Iedema wrote:
>> Adam,
>>> I was upgrading from 1.231.  It appears that after about 5  
>>> minutes or so
>>> the monowall system ends the transmission with a FIN packet.  The  
>>> upload
>>> speed was around 12 to 15KBytes/sec.  I tried messing with the  
>>> timeouts
>>> in PHP but I still did not get it to work.  I uploaded it over  
>>> the LAN
>>> and it worked.  The filesystem was not full either so that was  
>>> not it.
> --- CUT ---
>> I ran into this same thing. It's a hard timeout in the webserver,  
>> mini
>> httpd. It can be changed but you would need to recompile mini httpd
>> and create a new m0n0wall image with that binary.
>
> Thanks for the information.  Unfortunately it is too late at this  
> point for currently deployed systems.
>
> Does anyone know if this is something that might be changed in the  
> future?  It is a shame needing to go to a remote site to upgrade  
> the firmware because of the mini httpd hard timeout setting.

Are you remotely connecting via HTTP/SSL or via PPTP?

I have updated many m0n0walls remotely, but always using PPTP.   
Possibly this would make a difference?

Lonnie