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Re: [PLUG] SSH timeout


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James F. Fiore wrote:
> Cheesy, I know, but I usually just keep pine running in the background
> through SSH to keep the connection active.  I don't have to do anything
> in the window and it has kept my secure tunnels active even in an
> overnight test.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Doug Crompton wrote:
> 
>> I am trying to maintain an SSH <> Putty connection on my local network
>> between my Linux server and a WinXP machine running putty.  The
>> problem is
>> I let the WinXP machine lapse into suspend mode. If I come back hours
>> later the connection is hosed. I put a 'keepalive no' in the ssh
>> config in
>> Linux and have no kepalives defined in putty. It is my understanding from
>> ssh docs that this is the wa to keep a session opened. It still closes. I
>> was reading on the net about router timeouts, in particuliar NAT
>> inactivity timeouts but that should not effect this as it is on the local
>> network. This must be a lower level timeout as ssh<>putty sessions I
>> open without suspend but no actual activity, do not timeout. Any ideas?
> 
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Not that cheesy. Thats like the old dialup maneuver of querying the
mailserver every 9 minutes so they wont disconnect you due to inactivity.
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