ssh disconnecting [WAS: Getting Cut-Off]

[Rishi Chopra]

Wayne,

I would not suspect the hardware.  My suspicion is this has something to 
do with SSH configuration.  Is there a setting within the FreeBSD SSH 
configuration files that specifies disconnection of idle connections?

I didn't think my connection was idle since file transfer was occuring, 
but since there was no activity in the SSH terminal window, I could see 
how that could be taken as 'idle'; at any rate, there must be a setting 
that specifies number of minutes for an idle connection, and/or a way of 
turning off automatic idle disconnects.

A little help from the longbeards please? Arrrrrrrrrrgh!

-- 
Rishi Chopra
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra


Wayne Sierke wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 16:45, Rishi Chopra wrote:
> 
>>I have two machines in my loft (a FreeBSD server and a Win2k box) 
>>connected via CAT5 crossover cable.
>>
>>I connect to the FreeBSD machine via SSH, and use secure file transfer 
>>to upload/download from the machine.
>>
>>In the last week, the FreeBSD machine has dropped my connection on 3 
>>seperate occasions.  I'll queue up some work and leave the machine 
>>unattended, only to return at a later time and find that the connection 
>>has been closed.
>>
>>No one else has physical access to the area when this occurs; can anyone 
>>tell me what's going on or what I need to do in order to keep from being 
>>disconnected in the future?
>>
>>Unfortunately the file transfer client portion of SSH Secure Shell is 
>>very poor at resuming queued work, so this is starting to cause me an 
>>inconvinience.
> 
> 
> I've been having a similar problem, afaict since I moved my server to
> 5.2-RELEASE from 4.8-RELEASE and to a EPIA 5000 board (from a Pentium
> system).
> 
> I've not had a disconnection while I've been actively using the
> connection but most connections that are left idle get disconnected
> after a while (seems to be around 10 to 15 minutes). This happens
> consistently at the moment from my development system which can be
> running any of 5.2-RELEASE, Windows 98SE or Windows 2000 and has been
> seen to occur on another couple of systems. My suspicions currently lie
> with the on-board network adapter on the EPIA board using the vr driver
> but I have no direct evidence to support it, other than I don't recall
> ever seeing it with my old server.
> 
> 
> Wayne
> 
> 
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