Inactive client timeout

Hello all,

I've seen a couple of responses on this but no resolution... so i thought i'd post it again. Does anyone know if openssh has an inactive timeout option that works? Here's the configuration variable for sun's version of ssh:

     idle-timeout=time
          Sets idle timeout limit to time in seconds (s or  noth-
          ing  after  number),  in  minutes (m), in hours (h), in
          days (d), or in weeks (w).  If the connection have been
          idle  (all  channels) for that long time the child pro-
          cess is killed with SIGHUP, and  connection  is  closed
          down.

I see that there are 2 options for openssh:

ClientAliveInterval 4m
ClientAliveCountMax 5

The above should disconnect an inactive client in 20 minutes of inactivity... but i've seen email that it does not. Is this because of the KeepAlive option being on? What if any issues will encounter if i turn off the KeepAlive option?

Any help you can give would be great.

Adam Received on Tue Apr 29 14:08:32 2003