small buisness office router

gboyce gboyce at badbelly.com
Wed Apr 5 11:37:53 EDT 2006


On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Stephen Adler wrote:

> Guys,
>
> I need a router recommendation for a small business. Currently I have a
> netgrear which is timing out my ssh connections after 15 minutes and I
> can't seen to change the default time out. Its now an unsupported model.
> Can anyone recommend a nat-router with say 4 1000/100/10BaseT ethernet
> ports and a 100/10BaseT uplink?

Have you tried decreasing /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time?

If it times out after 15 minutes, setting tcp_keepalive_time to 840 (14 
minutes), could keep your connection alive.





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