Re: keep alive question

From: Richard E. Silverman (slade@shore.net)
Date: 01/30/03


From: slade@shore.net (Richard E. Silverman)
Date: 30 Jan 2003 15:21:01 -0500


>>>>> "MF" == Miles Fidelman <fidelman@sun10101.dn.net> writes:

    MF> Should not the failure of a keepalive message to get through cause
    MF> the sshd to terminate the associated process?

Yes -- after several hours; read about the TCP KeepAlive mechanism. If
you want quicker response, use the OpenSSH ClientAlive* feature.

-- 
  Richard Silverman
  slade@shore.net