John A. Kinsella writes:
> Hi.
> I'm running Ubuntu Edgy Edge on both work & home desktop machines.
>> I ssh in from home to work and all is well.
>> Except that after about 15 mins the connection drops.
>> Presumably I need to change a setting in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
> on work box?
It's probably a NAT killing the "idle" connection.
Throw this into ~/.ssh/config on the client machine:
serveraliveinterval 300
serveralivecountmax 10
see ssh_config(5).
also, I seem to recall changes made to ssh to improve this,
so an upgrade (of the client side) could help.
--j.
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