On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Craig White wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 20:08, Matt Alexander wrote:
> > Any Sonicwall users out there?  Have you found a way to keep your SSH
> > connections from being dropped after a few minutes of inactivity?
> ---
> I will always resort to the dirty method if forced - an occasional
> ping...
> 
> ping -c 1 192.168.x.x
> 
> put it in a cron script that runs every few minutes or in a loop that
> you can run while connected to keep it from dropping.


By the way, your solution wouldn't work for the problem I was having since
running ping from cron wouldn't go through the SSH connection.  I have
used this method in the past, however, to keep idle dial-up connections
from timing out.
~M