On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 21:30, Paul William wrote: > > Well, for *&*@&#*($ ADSL 90 seconds timeout, it's impossible to do any > > work without some countermeasure. > > inactive ADSL connections timeout after 90 seconds ?!
Nah, not so much the ADSL, but some routers timeout their NAT/MASQ buffers after quite short periods, which is fine for http, and other stateless protocols, but for ssh/telnet it fairly sucks.. I've been using ClientAliveInterval on the servers I maintain for that very reason with my Dlink router for a while now.. It times out after about 2 minutes or so.. Very painful if all you did was nip away to get a cuppa, and a session or two snuf it. The comments in this read about when ClientAliveInterval came into being would seem to be a bit academic, the stock (Patched) sshd that comes with RedHat 7.1 & later, Debian Woody(stable) and MDK 8.2 all support it from my experience so I suspect pretty much all current distros would... Cheers, Chris H, a happy ssh user :-).
