On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Philip J. Koenig wrote:

> One of those firewalls is quite flexible about protocol state
> timeouts, I can set this on a service-by-service basis. (ie I could
> increase it for SSH and no other service)
>
> Unfortunately the firewall on the other side isn't so accommodating.
> It has a single timeout setting that affects all traffic that
> traverses the firewall, and I'd rather not increase that too high.

If there is no option then run a low-bandwidth application in the
background to keep the connection alive, or script something to generate
some activity at frequent enough intervals to do so.

Cheers,

Viktor
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