Re: Idle-Timeout with Telnet and SSH

From: Peter Rohrman (pete_at_peterohrman_com)
Date: 09/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:45:04 -0400
To: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>

Barry,

I totaly forgot about the possibility of the firewall timing out my
idle-connection. I've have to snoop around to see if that is doing me
damage. I'll bet that is the answer. Thank you for your input. I'll
reply back after I get some time to play with the firewall. Hopefully
today.

Pete

Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <geqdnaYeKdOBYN3cRVn-gw@speakeasy.net>,
> Peter Rohrman <pete_at_peterohrman_com> wrote:
>
>
>>Hi Again,
>>
>>When I say that my sessions time out "rather quickly" I mean that if I
>>don't make a key stroke within 5 minutes, my telnet or ssh session
>>stops, and I'm thrown back into my local workstation's tcsh prompt. I
>>know that it is my workstation that is timing out the sessions because
>>1) I config'ed the cisco router that I telneted to to have a time out of
>>1 hour on the vty session, and 2) when I telnet back in (after my
>>session drops) I can see that my old vty session is still active from
>>the router's point of view. When I ssh to a Red Hat Fedora box, my
>>sessions idle time out within 5 minutes of me not making a keystroke. I
>>have a feeling that it is my local workstation that is dropping the
>>session because when I ssh back into the Red Hat Fedora box (after my
>>session has idle timed out), I do a netstat -a, and I can see that the
>>Fedora box still has the session as Established.
>
>
> If the client were dropping the connection, they server would see the
> connection close and it would kill the processes running from that
> connection.
>
> Do you have a firewall in the path? Maybe it has an idle connection
> timeout.
>

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