ssh issues

[gboyce at badbelly.com (Gregory Boyce)]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> However, I did find that the keep-alive parameter on the new server was not
> set to yes. I'll log in from home tonight and see how long the connection
> lasts.

If setting the keepalive to yes does not work, you might want to try 
adjusting /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time on either the server, your 
local machine, or both.

I've found that the default value isn't frequent enough to keep the 
connection from timing out when I'm at work.