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List:       ilug
Subject:    Re: [ILUG] idle ssh sessions timing out
From:       Kenn Humborg <kenn () linux ! ie>
Date:       2005-10-31 14:10:46
Message-ID: 20051031141046.GC16871 () excalibur ! research ! wombat ! ie
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On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:16:06AM +0000, Niall O Broin wrote:
> 
> I read about this, thought I haven't tried it yet. I'm not sure that it 
> will work though, because I can't see how it can resolve all the 
> questions:
> 
> 1) If the device timing out the sessions is the inbound gateway, then 
> surely it should time out my sessions as well as the complaining 
> user's?

Are you both ssh-ing _from_ the same machine?  If not, the TCP stacks on 
the two machines might have different keep-alive timers.  Your's is less
than the gateway timeout, their's is more.

Later,
Kenn
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