From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 10 07:11:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 A182F16A4DE for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:11:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CA7D43D58 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:11:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from coolf89ea26645 (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id k6A7Bbx33669; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 00:11:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Message-ID: <002a01c6a3f0$127a6ed0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "User Freebsd" , References: <20060708031809.H1799@ganymede.hub.org> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 00:11:31 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 Cc: Subject: Re: Linksys router and ssh time outs ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:11:49 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "User Freebsd" To: Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 11:20 PM Subject: Linksys router and ssh time outs ... > > I just put a linksys router in place, so that we could use our wireless > laptop, well, wireless ... now, I seem to be getting timeouts on my ssh > connections when they are idle, but timeouts that I never received when I > had my desktop directly connected to the cable modem ... > > I've looked at the settings for the Linksys, and can't find anything that > might be related ... is there some keepalive that the linksys might be > blocking, or something else that I can do to keep the connection from > dropping? > Some of the Netgear routers allow you to telnet into the router and change a config setting for the timeouts for specific protocols. But I've never heard the linksys allowing this. You might be lucky and your linksys might be one of the ones that can run an alternative firmware. If so, flash it to one of the open source firmwares and it should fix the problem. Ted