Re: Using SSH as a simple VPN: timeouts?

On 2006-07-13, Johan Lindquist wrote:
It's not entirely improbable that the university's firewall is set up
in a manner that disconnects idle sessions. One way to get around it
is to make sure there's always some traffic, you could for instance
run 'top' or something with a decently long update interval over the
ssh connection.

If this is the problem, then I'd suggest looking at ssh_config(5),
specifically the point about ServerAliveInterval.

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