Re: ssh disconnects

Josef Karthauser (joepavilion.net)
Thu, 9 Sep 1999 08:35:05 +0100

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On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:21:04AM +0000, James C. Durham wrote:
> I have ssh forwarding ports from a machine on the internet to
> another machine with a private IP here at my house.
>
> Everything works fine, except that the connection drops at irregular
> intervals, from 20 minutes to 2 or 3 days with a "connection reset
> by peer" message.
>
> I've experimented with keepalive and timeout in the config stuff to
> no avail. The only thing that seems to help is to run a script
> that sends the date from the remote server every 10 seconds. This
> makes it stay up for a couple days.
>
> What's going on here? Any ideas? It's very annoying..
>

I have the same problem, more or less. It occurs when my winbox
goes into sleep mode - during that time all TCP connections get
severed at some point, including interactive session - well annoying!

Joe

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