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RE: [SLUG] telnet timeout

To: David Zverina <davidz@nospam.tig.com.au>
Subject: RE: [SLUG] telnet timeout
From: James Morris <jmorris@nospam.intercode.com.au>
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 15:31:01 +1100 (EST)
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On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, David Zverina wrote:

> I am having similar problem except I am using ssh for connecting to the
> remote system and using zsh for my shell. So it probably is neither the
> shell, nor the communication software doing the disconnection.
> 
> Has anyone got any ideas on this one?

It's possible that a firewall between you and the system is shutting down
the connection after a certain amount of idle time.  If you think this
might be the case, try enabling ssh keepalives, or run something in the
background on the remote system which produces output (eg. 'vmstat 600&').

- James.
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James Morris
<jmorris@nospam.intercode.com.au>

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