keep wireless awake

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 14:26 -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
> Mario Spinthiras wrote:
> > | am absolutely certain that SSH doesnt do this on a Linux machine and 
> > to include on that , some functions of the mac do remain alive when 
> > you tuck it up for naptime. My question was different , does anyone 
> > know how this can be accomplished on a Linux notebook?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mario
> If I have an open ssh connection, suspend my kubuntu 7.10 laptop, and 
> start it back up the ssh connection still works.  Things get screwy when 
> I suspend while connected to 192.168.1.1 on my home network and 
> reconnect on the work network, but as long as I reconnect to the same 
> network everything is fine.  Is this not the behavior that you want? 

The default SSH daemon behavior is to turn on TCPKeepAlive
(see /etc/ssh/sshd_config.  With this option on, SSH connections will
drop if the remote client is down or unreachable.  I suspect you have
this option set to "No" in which case the SSH sessions will stay around
forever, unless explicitly closed by one end of the connection.
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