Are you using a linksys router? There is a known bug with linksys routers and ssh. On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 12:25, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > Hello, > > I wonder if anyone else encountered the following problem. My home > machine is on an ADSL connection, with the ADSL modem functioning as a > router and doing address translation. When I connect outside with ssh, > it breaks the connection after very small periods of inactivity (2-3 > minutes will usually do it) with "Connection reset by peer". I verified > that this has nothing to do with autotimeout settings of the shell on > the other side. In fact, the login shell and whatever else I ran from it > continues running on the other side. I don't experience connection > breakage in other TCP connections originating from my machine (e.g. long > downloads, telnet). > > Googling for information, I found many cases when people complained of > this problem and were told to put ProtocolKeepAlives with the value of > 30 or so in their ssh config files. The problem is that > ProtocolKeepAlives seems to be a debian-only extension (perhaps put > there precisely to combat this problem?). > > So, my question is threefold, I guess: has anyone encountered this > problem? can anyone explain why this is happening, in technical terms? > is there anything I can do to help it? > > Many thanks in advance, > Anatoly. -- Nathaniel McCallum [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://glis.sourceforge.net
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