ssh keepalives

[Michal F. Hanula]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 02:52:32PM +0200, Michal F. Hanula wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 07:17:19AM -0400, Steve Coile wrote:
> > 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?
[...lots of nonsense...]
If you have IPfilter, try
	sysctl -a | grep net.inet.ipf
						m&f


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