ssh & sftp terminal timeout

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Wed Apr 25 09:58:37 UTC 2007


On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:23:55 +1000
Tony Crouch <acrouch2 at une.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi All, 
> I noticed of late my ssh & sftp connections have been timing out very
> quickly. If I leave my machine (or do not use the ssh connection) for
> even 10 minutes the connection will timeout and I will have to close the
> window and re-connect.

Sounds like some kind of NAT or connection tracking firewall between your
two end points which has been set up with poorly chosen timeouts on those
ports.

Alan




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