SSH timeouts

[Jerry Feldman]

On Wednesday 05 April 2006 11:37 am, gboyce wrote:

> 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.
I changed the subject on this.
From my desk at work (SuSE 10.0 retail/Linux COE) I can maintain a 
connection to home and the 2 BLU servers for days (I am currently connected 
for over 1 week to both). My connection at work goes through a proxy 
server. 

From home (SuSE 10.0 retail) via a Linksys WRT54GX4 I get disconnected after 
a fairly short time. My desktop uses a wired connection through the router.  

My settings in ~/.ssh are the same for both my home and my work systems 
except for known_hosts and authorized_keys (obviously). 
A while back, my connections to the Red Hat 7.1 host would remain up but my 
connection to the Fedora Core 2 host would time out after a few hours. 

One thing I have not had the time to do is to run ssh in verbose mode and 
see if I can track the problem. It's not really much more than a minor 
irritant since I use public key authentication. 


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