I am having a problem with ssh sessions from my windows box to my freebsd
box timing out after a number of idle minutes. SecureCRT still shows a
valid connection until I try to type some keys, and then after a minute it
says "connecton reset". I believe I have isolated the problem to the ipfw
As Larry Baird was suggesting in a private email, one way to
handle this problem would be to have the firewall issue keepalives
to refresh the state. Unfortunately the connection can be alive
without any traffic flowing, and you cannot rely on keepalives on
both sides of the connection.
On the o
At 01:16 PM 3/31/00 -0600, you wrote:
>I am having a problem with ssh sessions from my windows box to my freebsd
>box timing out after a number of idle minutes. SecureCRT still shows a
>valid connection until I try to type some keys, and then after a minute it
>says "connecton reset". I belie
> I believe I may have found a solution. If I set net.inet.tcp.keepidle <
> net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_ack_lifetime, this appears to work. The defaults for
yes, though this assumes thay you can set the keepalive interval
on at least one end, and you know the lifetime of dynamic rules on
the firewall,
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