O.T.: How to make an idle connection persist

[Janina Sajka]

I have a workaround that I use when I'm at conferences where they seem
to care about inactivity on their network connections.

I launch a ping something like this:

ping -i 61 [address] &

I've found the not quite once a minute ping keeps my connections alive
nicely.

Just a thought. hth.

Janina

Chuck Hallenbeck writes:
> I'm looking for some direction on a funny issue here. There is a system 
> running Debian testing which I want to be able to have log onto my own 
> desktop, with a connection that persists, and does not time out. But 
> the system I am talking about drops its connection if it remains idle 
> for a time. It drops the connection whether it is an ssh connection or a 
> telnet connection. When I initiate a connection from my own system to 
> another host, I have no problem letting the connection remain idle for 
> hours, it is still alive when I need it. But when the connection comes 
> to me from the Debian Etch host, it will drop out if it remains idle, 
> whether that connection is ssh or telnet. It has to be used to remain 
> alive.
> 
> Where do I begin to look for the problem here? Is there a network 
> configuration I need to tweak? I am using the ssh option TCPKeepAlive, 
> but on the telnet side, I find no discussion of persistent connections 
> in the telnet docs.
> 
> Any clues much appreciated.
> 
> Chuck
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