Re: Using SSH as a simple VPN: timeouts?

So anyway, it was like, 20:24 CEST Jul 13 2006, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
Jesper was all like, "Dude,
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.

I Did Not Know That(tm). This is excellent information, thanks!

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