[lug] Idle connections on Mandrake

[Nate Duehr]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 03:44:12PM -0600, Atkinson, Chip wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I just installed Mandrake 8.0 on a machine and notice that if I connect to
> the machine that the connection appears to timeout and I lose that
> connection.  I'm using ssh to connect.  When connecting to a RedHat 6.2
> machine, the connection stays open just fine, so it's not the network or ssh
> client.  Any ideas where to start looking?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chip
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Look for the keepalive to be on in the sshd config file.  You may be
being lost in a firewall state table that loses state because there's no
traffic between you and the machine for a while.

Also, try running one of these connections with -v turned on in ssh so
when you exit from it after it dies you can see if it errors on the
disconnect...?

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