Idle time out

[Di Zhao]

Thank you for the answer. But my telnet session has far longer time out
than the ssh session. And when I check the Secure SSH, they do have such a
IdelTimeout function. The KeepAlive doesn't have much to do with this case
I am afraid.
 On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

> 
> dzhao1 at gl.umbc.edu said:
> > My ssh connection times out every 10 minutes or so and I want it to
> > keep open for like 3 hours so that I don't have to relogin.
> 
> This would normally be a function of the shell/utilties/policy on the 
> box you are logging into and nothing to do with ssh.
> 
> There is a keep-alive function - this I understand is done by putting a 
> keep-alive on the socket used, and the timeouts cannot be easily 
> tweaked on OSes I use.
> 
> 	Nigel.
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