i finally found out what was causing remote servers to kick me out of an ssh session after a long (a few minutes) period of inactivity. the "keepalive" interval time in my kernel was long, so it wasn't stimulating the server often enough to keep the connection open.
a soloution i found w/ google's help was the following: echo 300 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time works like a charm, but every time i reboot my box, the original value of 7200 returns and i have to run that little line again. is there a more efficient way to do this? -- many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. - henry david thoreau -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
