connection reset by peer from one location but not another

[Brian Ross]

On Mar 10, 2006, at 4:36 AM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:

> Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 09, 2006, Brian Ross wrote:
>>
>>> I'm getting a "connection reset by peer" disconnect after about  
>>> 10  minutes (or less) when I SSH to my 5.4-STABLE server from my  
>>> home  connection (cable DHCP), but I can stay connected all day  
>>> long from  work (DSL DHCP). I couldn't find any mention of  
>>> connection reset by  peer in the list archive, so I was wondering  
>>> what I could monitor  (running SSH in verbose mode doesn't tell  
>>> me much) to find where I'm  actually getting booted off from.  
>>> Since it only happens with one  connection, I'm thinking it isn't  
>>> my actual server that's causing the  reset. But I do not know  
>>> what log file to monitor in order to  investigate further.
>>>
>>
>> My guess is that your connection to the remote machine is via a
>> NAT (Masquerading) connection, and there's no activity on the
>> connection.  Running something like top when you're not actively
>> using the connection will probably prevent the timeout.
>>
>>
> If that's the case then running "ssh -o ServerAliveInterval 60"  
> would do that.  If it works, you can stick the option in your .ssh  
> config file.
>
> --Alex

Just what I was looking for!

Thanks,
Brian