I am using ShellGuard as the ssh client. My ssh sessions don't time out with other hosts except my pfSense box. My pfSense box is connected to the same switch as my workstation PC so I am lost as to what causes these timeouts. BTW, I think it's just with this 2.0.3 box i am seeing the timeouts.
On 26 April 2013 11:32, Espen F. Johansen <[email protected]> wrote: > Try turning on tcp-keepalive in your ssh client this fixes it for putty > f.ex. > > Espen F. Johansen > > > Sent with AquaMail for Android > http://www.aqua-mail.com > > > > On 25. april 2013 21:57:23 Jerome Alet <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:37:36PM -0400, Jim Pingle wrote: >> > On 4/25/2013 11:20 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: >> > > Whenever I am logged into my pfSense box via SSH, I always get logged >> > > out within some time, even when I am running something. Where can I >> > > change that timeout value? >> > >> > As others have mentioned there is no timeout value. pfSense will leave >> > active connections open, even if idle, for 24 hours at least. A WAN >> > getting disconnected would flush its states, or there could be something >> > else involved cutting them off. >> >> I've noticed the very same problem when connecting through ssh directly >> from my PC to our slave pfSense in our cluster of two : automatic >> disconnect from the slave after maybe one minute or even less. >> >> If I first connect to the master pfSense from my PC, then from there to >> the slave, there's no disconnection. >> >> I've never noticed such a problem when connecting to the master. >> >> bye >> >> -- >> Jérôme Alet - <[email protected]> - Direction du Système >> d'Information >> Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie - BPR4 - 98851 NOUMEA CEDEX >> Tél : +687 290081 Fax : +687 254829 >> _______________________________________________ >> List mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > > > > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 "I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler." _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
