You can not select more than 25 topics Topics must start with a letter or number, can include dashes ('-') and can be up to 35 characters long.

965 B

title summary date categories tags
Stalled SSH connections My firewall removed valid connections obviosly. This is how I solved it. 2024-10-06T19:30:17+02:00
computerstuff
networking
pfSense
openssh
selfhost

I spent some time adjusting my SSH configuration because I often get stalled connections to my servers but I never got that fixed until recently, when I started looking in my firewall settings on the pfSense.

After changing the Firewall Optimization Settings within SystemAdvancedFirewall & NAT to Conservative I had no more of these hangs of my SSH sessions.

pfSense settings

I use the ControlMaster setting in my SSH configuration so the stalled connections have to be killed with something like

$ ssh -O exit {short hostname}

every time -- which is annoying.