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Date:      Tue, 23 Apr 2002 01:42:01 -0700
From:      "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   SSH questions
Message-ID:  <20020423084157998.AAA719@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com>

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I've been having issues recently connecting from one FBSD box to 
another. (4.3-Stable calling a 4.5-Stable box)

1) SSH is timing out after a few minutes of inactivity.  (actually 
I'm getting "connection reset by peer" messages)

The reason I don't think this is a connectivity problem is that both 
boxes are on pretty reliable circuits connected to the same ISP. (ie 
packets between them never hit the internet)

I looked for some "timeout" settings in both /etc/ssh/sshd_config or 
ssh_config and didn't find anything but the "keep alive" setting.  
Are connections supposed to stay alive indefinitely by default?

2) The default ssh_config file appears to have protocol 1 as the 
'default' protocol - or do I misunderstand this field?  Clearly I 
want to use protocol 2 whenever possible because it's supposed to be 
more secure than v1.  This is the line I'm referring to:

	Protocol 1,2

On the 4.3-Stable box those numbers are reversed.. but the line is 
commented-out.

3) Seems like it doesn't do much logging by default. (default syslog 
facility "AUTH", level "Info")  I can see basic stuff in wtmp/lastlog 
but I'd like to log things like SSH protocol version, authentication 
method, etc.  I tried changing "INFO" to "VERBOSE" and sent a HUP to 
sshd but it didn't seem to change much.

Thx,

Phil



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Philip J. Koenig                                       pjklist@ekahuna.com
Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium


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