Connections automatically timeout?

[Damien Miller]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Gary Shea wrote:

> Hi --
> 
> Recently set up OpenSSH on a number of machines that I'd been using
> ssh2 on (illegally, it turns out... gotta read the small print!).
> OpenSSH is working great except for one small thing.
> 
> If I leave an openssh connection untouched for a few hours, it seems to
> automatically disconnect.  I don't see this behaviour with ssh.com
> ssh, either v1 or v2.
> 
> I have Keep-Alive set to 'no' for both openssh and commercial ssh, but
> can't find any other possibly relevant directives.  Am I missing something
> obvious?
 
Is there a router performing NAT or a masquerading firewall between the
client and the server? These frequently timeout quiescent connections.

-d


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