7 Aug
2006
7 Aug
'06
9:58 a.m.
ssh doesn't seem to follow the standard rules of
timeouts. I have
left a ssh session idle once for over 3 days, and it still worked.
What "standard rules of timeouts" does that not follow? TCP
connections in general don't get torn down when idle without traffic.
(Most TCP stacks have an option which applications can turn on,
requesting that idle connections get probed every few hours, but as far
as I know they all have it off by default - as is required by RFC-1122
4.2.3.6.)
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