I believe you should check the plug-ins section. I think auto-reconnection is handled by a plug-in. (I could be wrong :p)
On 7/27/07, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/27/07, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Earlier today, while I was sitting at my computer, Pidgin threw up an > > error dialog telling me that the connection had been reset by peer. I > > don't know what that means. But what got my attention is that I had to > > do a few clicks to reconnect. So something must not be set for > > automatic reconnect. > > Not sure. But here below is a solution to a similar "connection reset > by peer" problem. In my case, it was related to ssh. > > > > > > On 5/18/06, kelsey hudson <[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." > > > > > > > > > > > TCPKeepAlive yes > > > > ServerAliveInterval 30 > > > > ServerAliveCountMax 3 > > > > > > > > That way it pings the server every 30 seconds. If, after a minute and a > > > > half, the machine doesn't respond, the connection is dropped. This also > > > > has the benefit of keeping translation entries open. > > > > > > > > > > This seems to have cured the problem. The next question is: why are > > > these ssh configuration parameters not mentioned in ssh_config(5) or > > > in /etc/ssh/ssh_config? Maybe there is other documentation for ssh. > > > (OpenSSH)? > > > One more followup. After reviewing the documentation, and trying some > > experiments, the only modification needed to /etc/ssh/ssh_config is: > > ServerAliveInterval 30 > > TCPKeepAlive is deprecated, and seems not to be necessary. > > ServerAliveCountMax 3 is the default value. > > For what it's worth this has kept my ssh connections up for weeks at a > time. Your problem with pidgin may be completely different. > > carl > -- > carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- Nicholas Wheeler Systems Administrator Development InfoStructure -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
