From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 8 12:24:22 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 8F05516A4DA for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 12:24:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eric@mikestammer.com) Received: from smtp112.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp112.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.93]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E117143D46 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 12:24:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eric@mikestammer.com) Received: (qmail 83223 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2006 12:24:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gondolin.mikestammer.com) (mikestammer@sbcglobal.net@68.251.71.132 with login) by smtp112.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 8 Jul 2006 12:24:21 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gondolin.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EC9D274 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 07:24:20 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mikestammer.com Received: from gondolin.mikestammer.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gondolin.middleearth.mikestammer.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id mayTTCf18iUg for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 07:24:18 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [192.168.0.20]) by gondolin.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DF20C9 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 07:24:18 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <44AFA3F2.3030303@mikestammer.com> Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 07:24:18 -0500 From: Eric User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20060708031809.H1799@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20060708031809.H1799@ganymede.hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0627-3, 07/07/2006), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean 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: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 12:24:22 -0000 User Freebsd wrote: > > 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? > > Thanks ... Putty has an option to send keep alives every few seconds as does SecureCRT. are you using that? More than likely the firewall in the linksys is killing the connection after 5 minutes of inactivity. My sonicwall was doing the same until i started using the keepalive. set it to like 30 seconds to start and go from there