OT: Sonicwall and SSH

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Craig White wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 20:08, Matt Alexander wrote:
> > Any Sonicwall users out there? Have you found a way to keep your SSH
> > connections from being dropped after a few minutes of inactivity?
> ---
> I will always resort to the dirty method if forced - an occasional
> ping...
>
> ping -c 1 192.168.x.x
>
> put it in a cron script that runs every few minutes or in a loop that
> you can run while connected to keep it from dropping.


I found a solution...

echo 50 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time

Normally tcp_keepalive_time is set to 2 hours, but I set it to 50 seconds
because the Sonicwall apparently will tear down the connection if it's
been idle for 60 seconds.
~M