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Date:      Sat, 8 Jul 2006 12:34:33 -0300 (ADT)
From:      User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org>
To:        Eric <eric@mikestammer.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Linksys router and ssh time outs ...
Message-ID:  <20060708123403.Q1799@ganymede.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <44AFA3F2.3030303@mikestammer.com>
References:  <20060708031809.H1799@ganymede.hub.org> <44AFA3F2.3030303@mikestammer.com>

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On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Eric wrote:

> 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.

Those are, ummm, Windows clients, right? :)

I'm using OpenSSH on a FreeBSD desktop ... does it have similar? :)

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