Am Donnerstag, den 18.08.2005, 12:36 -0500 schrieb Peter Fein:
> Hi-
>
> Is there any way to have the *server* timeout disconnected clients? I'm
> connecting over a sometimes flaky WiFi connection & when it goes down,
> I'm left with several open idle sessions. Is there a way to have the
> server disconnect these? A coworker and I have searched the docs/faqs &
> haven't been able to find an answer. The best we could come up with was
> tunneling over SSH and lowering sshd's timeout setting, but this seems
> less than ideal. TIA.
You might try openvpn (anyway for WiFi connections - since WEP isnt
really enough) as it is fully transparent (you dont need to start up
the tunneling per connection as of ssh) and it maintains connection keep
alive and stuff.