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Re: ssh connection closed



On 2004-04-16 01:26:52 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> Could be you've got an intermediate router that's dropping you,
> possibly after ten minutes' idle time.

If this is possible, then it could probably be the case, since the
problems appeared after moving to a different ADSL connection (using
a different ADSL router) -- but last time such a problem appeared
with this router, this was just a coincidence.

> I'd added the following line to /etc/init.d/networking:
> 
>     networking:     # set keepalives to 5 minutes rather than 3 hours
>     networking:     echo 300 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time
> 
> ...to counter a similar problem.

But the problem with keepalive is that the ssh connection is dropped
after an ADSL reconnection (every 24 hours). That's why I disabled it
several months ago (though it didn't always work).

> If you're dealing with a *hard* session timeout of 10 minutes, I'd
> advise you to learn to love screen.

Yes, I already use it, but these closed connections are still annoying.

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