Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 00:44:21 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> Subject: Re: Linksys router and ssh time outs ... Message-ID: <87172611-52D9-4395-8D42-0BF198DBDE9C@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <002a01c6a3f0$127a6ed0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <20060708031809.H1799@ganymede.hub.org> <002a01c6a3f0$127a6ed0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645>
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On Jul 10, 2006, at 00:11, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > From: "User Freebsd" <freebsd@hub.org> >> >> I just put a linksys router in place, so that we could use our >> wireless >> laptop, well, wireless ... now, I seem to be getting timeouts on >> my ssh >> connections when they are idle, but timeouts that I never received >> when I >> had my desktop directly connected to the cable modem ... >> >> I've looked at the settings for the Linksys, and can't find >> anything that >> might be related ... is there some keepalive that the linksys >> might be >> blocking, or something else that I can do to keep the connection from >> dropping? >> > > Some of the Netgear routers allow you to telnet into the router and > change > a config setting for the timeouts for specific protocols. But I've > never > heard the linksys allowing this. > > You might be lucky and your linksys might be one of the ones that can > run an alternative firmware. If so, flash it to one of the open > source > firmwares and it should fix the problem. You can also put lines like: ServerAliveInterval 300 ServerAliveCountMax 3 in ssh_config. That will cause ssh to send periodic alive messages. I use those to avoid the same problem.
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