-R port:host:hostport - communication lost after some minutes

[Peter Stuge]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 02:42:35PM +0100, Hans Schou wrote:
> > I must add that in my particular situation, joe connected to
> > "test.com" through "a lot"  (at least 3) of internal networks /
> > firewalls / NAT... And that probably is the root of the problem.
> 
> I had exactly the same problem with "jane", and she is sitting behind 
> a different router on another location. Both joe and jane has only one 
> router in my setup.
> 
> I guess I can reproduce the bug witin 15 minutes.

Then I'd guess your NAT firewall has a connection tracking timeout of,
exactly, 15 minutes.

Use ClientAliveInterval in sshd to induce occasional traffic.


//Peter