On 9/04/19 12:14 PM, timothylegg wrote: > I have two residences and one > has a port forwarding issue. I want to make an SSH tunnel to the > other site. If I am at one place for multiple weeks, it's asking too > much for the SSH tunnel to stay live that long (I've seen many > complaints of SSH connections dropping). I want to put it on a > periodic cron job, but if I don't answer into the tunnel within 30 > minutes, it becomes idle and drops off. Every hour a new tunnel is > initiated. The old session must either be closed or expire else I'll > have multiple SSH sessions live simultaneously. Have you considered using a VPN instead of SSH tunnelling? Eg I have OpenVPN set up to my parents' place, so that I can do (automatic) backups of their system. I did run into issues with address space conflicts (I can't renumber either end), so in the end I did it all with IPv6, but you might not need that. Richard
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