Comment 2 for bug 1074659

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Please could you confirm how long you've waited for the client to time out, and whether you have tried to send any data from the client or if you are expecting it to time out on its own?

ssh_config(5) indicates that by default TCP keepalives are enabled, and on my system it looks like Linux won't default to timing out on TCP keepalives for at least two hours and eleven minutes (tcp_keepalive_time=7200, tcp_keepalive_intvl=75, tcp_keepalive_probes=9). Have you waited this long?

Additionally, are you aware of the ServerAliveInterval (and/or ClientAliveInterval on the server side) option?

Please could you also clarify if the bug that you are reporting is that you want the default timeout options changed, the timeout tuning options don't work, or something else?