On 5/18/06, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/18/06, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> > Frequently I log in by ssh to a remote computer. If I don't keep
> > using the connection, after a few minutes I get the message
> > " Read from remote host deeptow: Connection reset by peer
> > Connection to deeptow closed."
>
> Are you going through a nat box? I bet your nat box has an idle timer so
> that if no traffic passes on the connection the nat table entry is
> removed to make way for others. Try leaving top or something running to
> keep some traffic on the link and I bet it won't drop. You may have to
> go into your nat box and change the timeout setting. If it some consumer
> grade nat box that doesn't leak you tweak such settings you may have to
> find another one.
A short experiment, disabling "connect automatically" caused some
things to stop working, such as Azureus bit-torrent. I don't fully
understand the interaction of some of these options. The idle timeout
configuration option is part of the Manual Connection screen, and not
available for Connect Automatically.
Small addendum. Reading more of the manual and the internal web page
makes me belive that disabling "connect automatically" and setting an
idle timeout is something that you use only if you are connecting with
PPPOE. I am not doing that, since my network service comes from
RoadRunner.
carl
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