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From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz>
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On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:57:56AM -0500, Danny Howard wrote:
> Nathan Kinkade wrote:
>=20
> >Perhaps you are behind some sort of stateful firewall
> >that drops dynamic rules after a certain period of idle time?
> >
> Nathan,
>=20
> Good call!  I got ipfw in there just last week.  Time to RTFM. (Yeah,=20
> this is kind of like a crappy NAT ...)
>=20
> And yes, I discovered the sessions are still on the box.  kill -1 -1 is=
=20
> handy for that, though.
>=20
> Thanks,
> -danny

It might be worth while to look into these options for the sshd_config
file:

ClientAliveInterval
ClientAliveCountMax
KeepAlive

Nathan
--=20
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