Re: [tlug] NEC Aterm DR302 and SSH timeouts

[Ian Barwick <barwick@example.com>]

On Tue, 4 May 2004 10:14:15 +0900, Jim Tittsler <jwt-tlug@example.com> wrote:
> Some SSH clients have the ability to insert an SSH NOOP
> periodically on an idle connection.  (PuTTY for example.  :-)

Aha, must remember that for future reference.

> There are patches that allow you to add it to OpenSSH.
>   http://www.sc.isc.tohoku.ac.jp/~hgot/sources/openssh-watchdog.html

That seems to do the trick nicely, many thanks :-).

(...)
>   echo 1800 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time

This doesn't seem to work; I'm fairly sure it's the Aterm box timing
out idle connections.

Thanks once again

Ian Barwick