Re: ip_masq and IP_MASQ_S_ESTABLISHED

Juanjo Ciarlante (irriga@impsat1.com.ar)
Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:16:38 -0300

On Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 07:55:37AM +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> man ssh(1):
> KeepAlive
> Specifies whether the system should send keepalive
> messages to the other side. If they are sent,
> death of the connection or crash of one of the
> machines will be properly noticed. However, this
> means that connections will die if the route is
> down temporarily, and some people find it annoying.
>
> The default is "yes" (to send keepalives), and the
> client will notice if the network goes down or the
> remote host dies. This is important in scripts,
> and many users want it too.
>
> To disable keepalives, the value should be set to
> "no" in both the server and the client configura­
> tion files.
>
> Should be enough to prevent the masq port from closing...
... and the best solution, because you won't need to raise timeouts
for every connection.

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