duncan <duncan at sodatrain.com> wrote: > > Ive noticed that from various locations, i seem to get shorter or longer > times before my ssh session disconnects between my dektop and my server > that is co-lo'd. KeepAlive is set to yes in sshd_config. > > Any thoughts? I recall having problems with my family's IP Masq box. I ended up doing this on the firewall: # Set Masquerade timeout to 14400 seconds (4 hours) /sbin/ipchains -M -S 14400 0 0 (not sure what the equivalent would be for IP Tables) And I think I had also tried changing the kernel's keepalive time to something like 10-15 minutes on my client system by setting /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time to something small. The default is 7200 seconds (2 hours), but I think the default for a Linux NAT box is somewhere on the order of 900 seconds (15 minutes). -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ What the fuck is a / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ hefalump? \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010813/34fa7dd0/attachment.pgp