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Quoting Steve Coile (scoile@nandomedia.com):
| On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
| > I'm having a problem with premature termination of ssh sessions [...]
| 
| 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.

As Michal F. Hanula, it might be due to the firewall dropping idle TCP
connections.

At work I use PuTTY (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) for
my outbound ssh sessions, and it supports a useful option:

	"Sending of null packets to keep session active"

Settings this to, say, 60 seconds effectively prevents my sessions from being
cut off.  Unfortunately I haven't found any similar feature in the OpenSSH
clients.  Do they support such a feature?

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