Miark wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:40:59 +0100, Alain wrote: > >> Miark, do you suffer the problem very often ? >> Could you try to temporarily make a link from /dev/random >> to /dev/urandom ? > > Actually, I have to take that back. After I made the sshd config > changes: > > ClientAliveInterval 30 > ClientAliveCountMax 5 > > it did hang on me once, but I'm looking at Konsole rigth now, > and my connection to the CentOS box has stayed alive all day. I > guess all is well. > > I'll keep your suggestion, though. If the hangs return, I'll > give your idea a shot. > > Thanks, > Miark A couple of years back I was running into this problem very consistently, SSH sessions from my home to my office would just be dropped after a while. After talking to the network administrator I found that the Cisco firewall we were using would "prune" what it saw as inactive connections after a specific period of time. Adding the ClientAlive* entries to the sshd_config file has resolved this for me. -- Jay Leafey - Memphis, TN jay.leafey at mindless.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5177 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20071215/3e6d9b4c/attachment-0005.bin>