On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 08:42, Matt Alexander wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Dale Farnsworth wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 03:08:34AM +0000, 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?
> > 
> > Using the OpenSSH client, I put "ProtocolKeepAlives 300" in
> > $HOME/.ssh/config (or /etc/ssh/ssh_config).  5 minutes was enough
> > to keep the connection open.
> 
> Interesting...  The RedHat-compiled OpenSSH client doesn't appear to
> support this:
> 
> /etc/ssh/ssh_config: line 37: Bad configuration option: ProtocolKeepAlives
> 
> There's no reference to this option in the ssh_config man page and no
> reference to it in the O'Reilly SSH book, but I do find references to it
> on the 'net:
> 
> http://www.fifi.org/cgi-bin/man2html/usr/share/man/man5/ssh_config.5.gz
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-ssh/2003/debian-ssh-200304/msg00009.html
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interestingly enough, the debian thread ends with the conclusion that
you came to - to add the value to tcp_keepalive_time

obviously the ProtocolKeepAlives argument only exists in some patched
debian versions of openssh and has not been included in the general
distribution of openssh.

Craig