[vox-tech] OT hardware router suggestions

Karsten M. Self kmself at ix.netcom.com
Fri Jun 3 15:59:34 PDT 2005


on Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 12:43:09PM -0700, Dylan Beaudette (dylan at iici.no-ip.org) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am looking to replace my computer-based router with a smaller and 
> more energy efficient hardware router. In the past I have tried a 
> couple Linksys routers, but they consistently broke ssh connections 
> between home and remote machine (on DSL). Since then,  the only way to 
> keep an ssh session for longer than 10 minutes was to use a software 
> router (i.e. an old computer).
> 
> As we are moving, I would like to try out a hardware router again but 
> this time with some input on :
> 
> relatively secure wireless
> will not drop my ssh sessions
> reliable operation
> 
> any ideas ?

(Debian)

    echo "echo 300 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time" >> \
    /etc/init.d/networking


Other distros:  YMMV.

Peace.

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