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You've got a buggy router
Authored by: bill_mcgonigle on Jun 17, '04 08:29:35PM

Technically, it's a bug. But NAT vendors bill it as a feature.

Most customers don't know this feature is on or where to turn it off or that it's usually set for 5-10 minutes by default.

And you can't control all the NAT gateways between your home and your destination, typically.

Hence the SSH guys came through with a fix. FYI, setting TCP SO_KEEPALIVE doesn't make these NAT boxes work, they ignore it.



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