[Gllug] ssh timeout

[Martin A. Brooks]

Minty wrote:

>I have a couple of home firewalls in the path, but ssh'ing into my
>home machines from outside doesn't present this problem, only ssh'ing
>out.
>

Are you NATing outbound traffic?  If so it sounds like your NAT is set 
to kill off idle TCP connections.  There's a kernel value in /proc you 
can tweak to set the timeout.
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