[Gllug] ssh timeout

Martin A. Brooks martin at hinterlands.org
Tue Feb 8 23:18:44 UTC 2005


Andy McGarty wrote:

> There is an sshd_config setting:
> #KeepAlive yes


I seem to recall this option doesn't quite do what you'd think. IIRC, 
this actually deals with killing off dead half open  TCP connections 
that would otherwise build up and possibly prevent ssh connections from 
being established.

Mart.



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