connection reset by peer from one location but not another

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Bill Campbell wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 09, 2006, Brian Ross wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
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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