> The "poor sod" in this situation deserves something untoward, > IMNSHO. Protocols like ssh do send something periodically whereas > telnet doesn't. Telnet is a well-known security problem. As others > have pointed out, this is an endemic problem in applications > generally speaking, where a long-term "idle" connection isn't > treated as an exception or an an error.
Some of us use only ssh for remote login *and* specifically turn off ssh keepalives, in order to keep login sessions up for weeks at at time. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
