Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 07:17:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Coile <scoile@nandomedia.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh keepalives Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307020715270.2161-100000@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20030701234427538.AAA1087@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com>
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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? -- Steve Coile
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