From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 6 9:24:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD8B437B41B for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 09:24:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id fB6HOMd00626; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 09:24:22 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200112061724.fB6HOMd00626@ptavv.es.net> To: joe@jwebmedia.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSH Timeout In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Dec 2001 11:16:35 CST." <3C0E5673.27A3A979@jwebmedia.com> Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 09:24:22 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 11:16:35 -0600 > From: Joe Koenig > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > How can I set sshd so that the inactivity timeout is longer. For > example, if I ssh to my FBSD box and am idle for about 5 minutes, it > will close my connect. Where can I up that? Thanks, I'm guessing that you are behind a firewall. I have battled this and the problem was not local to my system, but the firewall. It timed out connections after a short time of inactivity and I had to increase that to 90 minutes. It's very likely that a smaller value would have worked, but I didn't spend time messing with it. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message