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If you want to send keep alive messages across an ssh connection, check the documentation for your ssh implementation, man ssh2_config for me reveals a KeepAlive directive which will have ssh send keep alive messages over the connection so you don't have to worry about it timing out. If you have the TMOUT variable set, it could be bash which is disconnecting you and not your ssh connection.

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Re: Re: Top of the second?
by Adam (Vicar) on Mar 22, 2001 at 03:08 UTC
    I know the source of the time out: I spoke with the administrator for our firewall. I only have the problem at work, so that isolates it as well. As for having ssh handle the keep alives, I didn't think to check that, but after reading your post I went exploring. Sigh. My ssh terminal doesn't have that option. It is a Windows implementation, not a *nix. Good idea though.
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