I have a workaround that I use when I'm at conferences where they seem to care about inactivity on their network connections. I launch a ping something like this: ping -i 61 [address] & I've found the not quite once a minute ping keeps my connections alive nicely. Just a thought. hth. Janina Chuck Hallenbeck writes: > I'm looking for some direction on a funny issue here. There is a system > running Debian testing which I want to be able to have log onto my own > desktop, with a connection that persists, and does not time out. But > the system I am talking about drops its connection if it remains idle > for a time. It drops the connection whether it is an ssh connection or a > telnet connection. When I initiate a connection from my own system to > another host, I have no problem letting the connection remain idle for > hours, it is still alive when I need it. But when the connection comes > to me from the Debian Etch host, it will drop out if it remains idle, > whether that connection is ssh or telnet. It has to be used to remain > alive. > > Where do I begin to look for the problem here? Is there a network > configuration I need to tweak? I am using the ssh option TCPKeepAlive, > but on the telnet side, I find no discussion of persistent connections > in the telnet docs. > > Any clues much appreciated. > > Chuck > > -- > The Moon is Waning Gibbous (88% of Full) > But you can get a few downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.595.7777 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org
