From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 11 7:37:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cactus.fi.uba.ar (cactus.fi.uba.ar [157.92.49.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F79637B43E for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 07:37:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar) Received: from cactus.fi.uba.ar (cactus.fi.uba.ar [157.92.49.108]) by cactus.fi.uba.ar (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA56424; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:42:38 -0300 (ART) (envelope-from fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:42:38 -0300 (ART) From: Fernando Gleiser To: tmchow@sfu.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Firewall rules causing SSH disconects? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm not exactly sure of the time length involved before the disconnects, > because it seems to happen mainly when there's a time period of idleness.. > What will happen is that the connection will sit there for a bit, then if I > then type a character or two (like the letter L is "ls"), it will show the > "l" but then disconnect me. I have no way to knowing how much time has > elapsed unfortunately. > A had the same problem some time ago, and it was related to NAT entries expiring. I solved it lowering the keepidle interval so it sends a keepalive probe every 3 minutes and the NAT entry gets refreshed. But you said you where using a Win2K client , and I dont know if you can do that in Win2K. Fer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message