On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:44:23PM -0700, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 21:41, Simon Males <[email protected]> wrote: > > > We have just switched Internet connections (from ADSL2 to [SH/B]DSL) > > and I'm finding that SSH connections to the Internet are timing out. > > I bet whatever device is doing NAT or firewalling on the outside of > your network is dropping the "idle" connection; turning on TCP or > protocol level keep-alive messages in SSH will probably solve your > problem.
I concur with the above. If you can, setup an ipv6 tunnel or vpn is another option which will give you more control over the traffic between the two endpoints. Nick. -- PGP Key ID = 0x418487E7 http://www.nick-andrew.net/ PGP Key fingerprint = B3ED 6894 8E49 1770 C24A 67E3 6266 6EB9 4184 87E7 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
