On 26-4-2013 10:48, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > 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.
If you have state killing actived and/or connecting to the external address of the pfsense box this could cause it. If you have nat reflection enabled and/or a nat forward you are connecting through (interface set to any) could cause this too. Cheers, Seth > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
