From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 2 04:42:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F11BE37B401 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 04:42:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.sacbee.com (filter.sacbee.com [206.107.198.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F1A243F93 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 04:42:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scoile@nandomedia.com) Received: by EXCHANGEMCC with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 04:44:33 -0700 Received: from [10.1.1.15] (10.1.1.15 [10.1.1.15]) by exchangemcc.mcclatchy.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id MZ03TW2F; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 04:44:29 -0700 From: Steve Coile To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 07:17:19 -0400 (EDT) X-X-Sender: scoile@localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: <20030701234427538.AAA1087@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: ssh keepalives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 11:42:19 -0000 On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > 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. Is this a common problem with firewalls? We suffer from this problem here, also, and I've thought it must be a misconfiguration with the firewall or elsewhere in the netwrok. But since you mentioend it, I'm rethinking my assessment. Can someone explain why these connections get dropped? -- Steve Coile