connection reset by peer from one location but not another

[Bill Campbell]

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.

Bill
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