Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:10:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Viktor Lazlo <viktorlazlo@telus.net> To: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh keepalives Message-ID: <20030708110837.Q54307@njamn8or.no-ip.org> In-Reply-To: <20030703071803206.AAA1059@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> References: <20030703071803206.AAA1059@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com>
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On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > One of those firewalls is quite flexible about protocol state > timeouts, I can set this on a service-by-service basis. (ie I could > increase it for SSH and no other service) > > Unfortunately the firewall on the other side isn't so accommodating. > It has a single timeout setting that affects all traffic that > traverses the firewall, and I'd rather not increase that too high. If there is no option then run a low-bandwidth application in the background to keep the connection alive, or script something to generate some activity at frequent enough intervals to do so. Cheers, Viktor
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