Enabling ServerAliveInterval by default

[Nadav Har'El]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2007, Gert Doering wrote about "Re: Enabling ServerAliveInterval by default":
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 10:05:00PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> > May I ask what is a "sane" NAT timeout? 5 minutes? 30 minutes? 1 hour? 1 day?
> 
> This borders very much on a religious war :-)
> 
> For me, no kind of NAT can ever be considered "sane".
> <religious>
> Working around broken NATs instead of fixing the problem is not The Way To
> Do Things.
> </religious>

Note that I wasn't at all talking specifically about NAT. As I said in my
original post, many types of "stateful" devices, including for example
firewalls and load-balancers cause these problems.

So I'm having a very hard time understand why you see this as a religous war.

I'm having a very hard time believing that I have been the only person who
in the course of the last few years found it harder and harder to keep
non-LAN ssh connections active without being disconnected after a few minutes
of inactivity. I've seen this problem on several combinations of client and
server networks.

> Personally, I have situations where I like ServerAliveInterval, and other
> situations where it isn't needed, and is actually interfering with the
> way I use SSH.  So I need to adapt the defaults either way.

I am curious - how does ServerAliveInterval (again, with a large
ServerAliveCountMax, not the default 3) interfer with the way you use SSH?

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