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Subject: Re: stray sshd processes
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Ben Rosengart <questions@narcissus.net> writes:

> Hello,
>   I'm running STABLE as of about a month ago. I have a shell user whose
> ssh connection is sometimes disconnected by a firewall between her
> network and mine.  When this happens, the privileged sshd child for her
> session does not terminate.  Once a number of them equal to "MaxStartups"
> accumulates, new connections cannot be made, which is annoying, to say
> the least.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this?  Any idea what the story is?

The firewall probably drops everything for the session afterwards.  
Adding keepalives would probably help...