On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Tero Kivinen wrote:
My ssh connections are usually up and running for ever. They only go down when I update my firewall, there is network problems, or our company firewall is reset for some reason. Usually that means the ssh connection is up for few months... I would be very unhappy I would need to restart my TCP connections every month, so any ISP giving me such notwork, would not be consider as proper ISP, and I would immediately switch to another ISP if my ISP starts doing things that break my connections.
I use MOSH. I never really notice when I change IPs because I move from wifi to wired to mobile and to a different wifi, it just seamlessly connects, usually before I am even able to type my password on my computer. I want all applications to behave like this.
Quasi stable addressing makes application developers take the "stable" part for granted. Networks go down and come back up again, TCP sessions hang due to stateful things in the network losing state etc. This is something an application developer needs to handle. If it only happens 2-4 times per year, they'll blame the network and not their application.
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