ssh keepalives

[Steve Coile]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> I'm having a problem with premature termination of ssh sessions after 
> an idle period of a few minutes, getting a "connection reset by peer" 
> message.  I presume this is due to intermediate stateful firewalls 
> closing the connection when no traffic passes for a period of time.

Is this a common problem with firewalls?  We suffer from this problem
here, also, and I've thought it must be a misconfiguration with the
firewall or elsewhere in the netwrok.  But since you mentioend it,
I'm rethinking my assessment.

Can someone explain why these connections get dropped?

-- 
Steve Coile