On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 07:00:36PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > man sshd_config(5)? > > > > KeepAlive > > Specifies whether the system should send TCP keepalive messages > > This doesn't help with a stateful firewall, because KeepAlives happen > out-of-band. Read the manpage yourself. :-) >
What do you mean with out-of-band? It uses the same tcp connection and thus, w.r.t the ipf package, happens inbound. -Guido
