Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 16:44:26 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ssh keepalives Message-ID: <20030701234427538.AAA1087@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com>
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I'm having a problem with premature termination of ssh sessions after an idle period of a few minutes, getting a "connection reset by peer" message. I presume this is due to intermediate stateful firewalls closing the connection when no traffic passes for a period of time. In the past I've addressed this issue when I have control of the destination host, by including the following parameters in sshd_config: ClientAliveInterval 30 ClientAliveCountMax 4 However in this case I don't have control over the destination. It's a self-contained network device. man 5 ssh_conf says that "KeepAlive" is the default with ssh. Is there any other tactic I can use to keep these connections from closing after a few minutes of inactivity? Currently on FreeBSD 4.8-stable with OpenSSH_3.5p1 -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium
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