topic Re: Active Connection Uptime in Firewall and Security Management https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Active-Connection-Uptime/m-p/34200#M2777 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>It's a tricky question, there can be multiple answers, depends which one you're looking for.</P><P>Imagine you have an open TCP connection that's been established a week ago and all it does sends 1second keep alive every 59 minutes (to avoid default 1hr timeout).</P><P></P><P>What number are you looking for? Technically connection has been up for 7 days. It has been sending data 1s every hour so 1s x 24 x 7 = 168s? Or 1s within last hour.. <img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://community.checkpoint.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /></P><P>Connection established time is in your logs. Session counter for bytes (optionally) in logs. Idle timer countdown in connection table (fw tab -t connections) - so you can calculate when it was last active.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 07 Mar 2018 20:48:09 GMT Kaspars_Zibarts 2018-03-07T20:48:09Z Active Connection Uptime https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Active-Connection-Uptime/m-p/34199#M2776 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>Is there a way to find out how long an active connection has been established for?</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 07 Mar 2018 15:01:12 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Active-Connection-Uptime/m-p/34199#M2776 David_McLellan 2018-03-07T15:01:12Z Re: Active Connection Uptime https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Active-Connection-Uptime/m-p/34200#M2777 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>It's a tricky question, there can be multiple answers, depends which one you're looking for.</P><P>Imagine you have an open TCP connection that's been established a week ago and all it does sends 1second keep alive every 59 minutes (to avoid default 1hr timeout).</P><P></P><P>What number are you looking for? Technically connection has been up for 7 days. It has been sending data 1s every hour so 1s x 24 x 7 = 168s? Or 1s within last hour.. <img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://community.checkpoint.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /></P><P>Connection established time is in your logs. Session counter for bytes (optionally) in logs. Idle timer countdown in connection table (fw tab -t connections) - so you can calculate when it was last active.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 07 Mar 2018 20:48:09 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Active-Connection-Uptime/m-p/34200#M2777 Kaspars_Zibarts 2018-03-07T20:48:09Z