I'm using SSH to tunnel thru my company's firewall to allow easy access to the servers inside the firewall when I'm at home. On the server side I issue this command:
ssh -f -C -R2001:localhost:23 pctom sleep 8h this connects to my home pc, which has an external address via the cable modem. The sleep command keeps the connection open so that when I get home I can enter this command: telnet localhost 2001 This way I can telnet into the corporate server via the ssh tunnel. This worked very well when my home system was running woody (the corporate server is an old release of SuSE and hasn't changed) but when I upgraded to sid I ran into this problem. Instead of the connection staying up for 8 hours, it terminates after exactly 2 hours of idle time with the server reporting: Read from remote host pctom: Connection reset by peer The log files on the server and my home pc give no indication of what's wrong. I've read some previous posts about this problem and folks decided it must be a faulty connection thru the cable modem. This is not the problem here. The disconnect always occurs after exactly 2 hours of idle time and only started happening when my home system went to sid. I can only assume there is some timeout parameter somewhere on my pc but I don't know where to look. I sure would appreciate any guidance someone can offer. Thanks. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
