[wellylug] SSHD on Debian and RedHat

[Jim Cheetham]

On Sep 29, 2005, at 9:33 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> Well, the funny thing is, the RedHat boxes used to be Debian boxes and 
> when they were Debian, they never timed out. Now they are RedHat they 
> time out. So the firewal, while it might be a factor, is not the 
> cause.
>
OK, so external interference is unlikely to be the cause. Idle timeouts 
are not really a feature of iptables setups, so it's likely to be the 
sshd on the server.

If you have read access to the sshd config, you could compare one to a 
Debian standard config ... that would be interesting ;-)

-jim