ssh keepalives

[Marc Wiz]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:10:41AM -0700, Viktor Lazlo wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> 
> > One of those firewalls is quite flexible about protocol state
> > timeouts, I can set this on a service-by-service basis. (ie I could
> > increase it for SSH and no other service)
> >
> > Unfortunately the firewall on the other side isn't so accommodating.
> > It has a single timeout setting that affects all traffic that
> > traverses the firewall, and I'd rather not increase that too high.
> 
> If there is no option then run a low-bandwidth application in the
> background to keep the connection alive, or script something to generate
> some activity at frequent enough intervals to do so.

I have noticed that with some firewalls at various places that I
have worked that it is not sufficient to just have the remote end
send data but you have to send data from your side.

Needless to say it is a royal pain.

Marc
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