[ale] OT: BellSouth DSL keep-alive?

[Drag0n]

	there is a setting you can make in ssh ( not sure if its te same for
OpenSSH ) for KeepAlive ( "KeepAlive yes" ) to maintain a connection.
not sure if this will be enough traffic to be considered interesting
traffic to maintain the connection.

Drag0n
dragon at atlantacon.org


Fulton Green wrote:
> 
> I've noticed that whenever all I'm doing is SSH'ing to my remote mail host
> from my BellSouth DSL'd box at home, the SSH session loses its connection
> whenever there is no Internet activity on my box for more than 30 seconds.
> So I'm guessing that the 30 seconds is the "Internet inactivity timeout" (or
> something like that) on the BellSouth side.
> 
> I'm not losing the PPPoE connection; I can open up a Slashdot page with no
> problems after losing the connection (up until whatever the PPPoE timeout
> is).
> 
> And if I'm streaming MP3 or Ogg all the while, my SSH connection stays
> connected, even if it's five mins. between keystrokes.  So I'm concluding
> that the timeout isn't on a per-connection basis.
> 
> Though I forgot to try it before I left for work, I think that setting
> up a "ping -i 25 somehost.bellsouth.net" can suffice for keeping my SSH
> connection up (unless the timeout is strictly predicated on TCP/IP
> activity).
> 
> Any other ideas?
> 
> TIA
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