ssh timeout question

[RW]

On Tue, 28 May 2019 07:37:36 -0400
John Johnstone wrote:


> It's very common for HTTP connections between web browsers and
> servers to also go idle before they are explicitly closed.  This
> results in the states being removed prematurely by the router.  This
> isn't noticed by the user though since the browser just opens a new
> connection to the server.
> 
> My guess would be that DHCP or number of active connections are not a 
> factor in your case.

I doubt it's to do with timing out an idle connection since pine is
polling for new mail ever 150s.