OT: Sonicwall and SSH

On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 00:03, Matt Alexander wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> By the way, your solution wouldn't work for the problem I was having since
> running ping from cron wouldn't go through the SSH connection. I have
> used this method in the past, however, to keep idle dial-up connections
> from timing out.
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Hadn't thought about that. Minor details ;-)

Craig