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Re: [PLUG] ssh disconnect weirdness
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On 11:49 Sun 25 Nov , W. Chris Shank wrote:
> On other servers, if the connection is
> inactive for more than I few minutes the session is closed. I suspect
> the later is due to a 3rd party firewall port-forward (ie: watchguard
> or firebox), but I'm not totally sure. But I do get this on some boxes
> with a Linux firewall, so is there a setting I should be looking for?
Chris,
you are correct - most firewalls time out inactive connections after some
time. The below config in ~/.ssh/config will enable tcp keepalives to
prevent this.
Claude
$ cat ~/.ssh/config
KeepAlive yes
TCPKeepAlive yes
ServerAliveInterval 10
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