You can also use man ssh to get the verbose debugging flags. Enable the flags and see what the debug logs show you. <div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 5, 2011 3:32 PM, "Jay Boyson" <<a href="mailto:jboyson.subscriber@gmail.com">jboyson.subscriber@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Try snooping on the remote machine when you are connected to it from the > outside net. Compare your snoop to a local net session. > On Feb 5, 2011 2:41 PM, "Franz Waldmüller" <<a href="mailto:waldbauernbub@gmx.at">waldbauernbub@gmx.at</a>> wrote: >> Am 2011-02-05 20:13, schrieb Tapas Mishra: >>> I have ssh access to a machine in my network,when I access it from >>> within the network and the connection lies idle for a lot of time the >>> connection does not die. >>> But when I login to the server from my home and there is no data >>> transmission for a long time the connection dies. >>> Here I would like to mention I have not set idletimeout or keepalive >>> in sshd_config and also the behavior of connection from inside network >>> and outside is different. >>> So what can be a reason for this? >>> >>> -- >>> >> I don't know the reason, but if you want to avoid the disconnect, start >> a lite process, e.g: >> watch date >> >> Franz >> >> -- >> ubuntu-users mailing list >> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </div>