[ale] OT: BellSouth DSL keep-alive?

[Jason Day]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 11:03:44AM -0500, Fulton Green wrote:
> I've noticed that whenever all I'm doing is SSH'ing to my remote mail host
> from my BellSouth DSL'd box at home, the SSH session loses its connection
> whenever there is no Internet activity on my box for more than 30 seconds.
> So I'm guessing that the 30 seconds is the "Internet inactivity timeout" (or
> something like that) on the BellSouth side.
[...]

I have the same problem when I ssh into my box at home from work, it
times out after an hour or so.  I just start up xclock, which keeps it
alive :-)
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Jason Day                                       jasonday at
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