On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 09:11, Brad Bendily wrote: > I have a question for all the cox.net users out there. > > I often use ssh sessions from my home, using my cox.net > connection, to my work. Very often my sessions get dropped. > None of my peers seems to have this problem when connecting > from their home to our office. So I can only assume the > problem is on my end. I have linux box as a gateway/firewall > for my cox connection. I first ssh to my gateway then ssh Are you doing any NAT? I know sometimes NAT'd sessions will drop out. Perhaps it has a timeout on the state of the connection if it sees no activity? I have a Allied Telysin NAT at home, and it times out after 5 minutes. This setting is unfortunately not configurable on my NAT.
Shannon > to my office. I never loose the connection to my gateway just > the session to my office. It seems to happen at random times. > Usually I'll leave my session open all the time, and at least > once a day lately it gets dropped. I really depends on how > often I use it as to how often it gets dropped. Sometimes I > can't sustain a connection cause it'll get dropped repeatedly. > But then I can go for about a week and not loose a session. > > Has any other cox.net users out there experienced this behavior? > > I'm leaning the blame towards cox, but I don't know how they'll > take it if I call and say my ssh sessions keep getting dropped > this sucks what are you gonna do about it? > > Any ideas? > > Thanks > -- > Brad Bendily - CNA > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -- Shannon Roddy __________________________________________________________________ Systems Administrator California Institute of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] LIGO Livingston Observatory ph: (225)686-3106 19100 LIGO Lane fx: (225)686-7189 Livingston, LA 70754 Web Page http://www.ligo-la.caltech.edu/~sroddy Calendar/Schedule See Home Page Wireless Email (255 Chars) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
