Re: [tlug] NEC Aterm DR302 and SSH timeouts

[Ian Barwick <barwick@example.com>]

On Wed, 5 May 2004 01:31:25 -0700, Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 09:34:43PM +0900, Ian Barwick wrote:
> 
> >>   echo 1800 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time
> >
> >This doesn't seem to work; I'm fairly sure it's the Aterm box timing
> >out idle connections.
> 
> I have this same problem going through a Linksys BEFW11S4 and tried it
> with 900, still didn't work.  I'm going to drop it to 300 and see if
> that helps.

I unsuccesfully tried a variety of figures but figured it'd be easier
to apply the ssh patch,
and haven't had the problem since.
 
> I'm glad you mentioned this or I would have been to lazy to seek an
> answer :-)

It was driving me slowly crazy ;-)

Ian Barwick