ssh reverse tunnel

Jaakko Ruutiainen jaakko.ruutiainen at kolumbus.fi
Mon Jun 30 19:06:35 UTC 2008


Rick Bilonick wrote:
> I re-installed Fedora 8 and now I can get a reverse ssh tunnel (from
> server to home) by typing on the server:
> 
>> ssh -R 2022:server.ip:22 home at home.ip
> 
> 
> Then when at the home computer, I type:
> 
>> ssh -p 2022 server at localhost
> 
> This works fine. The only problem is the connection always times out
> even though I've changed the sshd_config files on both machines to keep
> it alive. I've restarted the sshd daemon also. Not sure why the
> connection keeps closing.
> 

Run something like
while date ; do sleep 60; done
in the ssh session setting up the tunnel, adjust sleep time if needed. 
That will generate some traffic to keep the connection from timing out.

-- 
Jaakko Ruutiainen




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