ssh timeout question

[Doug Denault]

On Tue, 28 May 2019, RW via freebsd-questions wrote:

> On Tue, 28 May 2019 07:37:36 -0400
> John Johnstone wrote:
>
>
>> It's very common for HTTP connections between web browsers and
>> servers to also go idle before they are explicitly closed.  This
>> results in the states being removed prematurely by the router.  This
>> isn't noticed by the user though since the browser just opens a new
>> connection to the server.
>>
>> My guess would be that DHCP or number of active connections are not a
>> factor in your case.
>
> I doubt it's to do with timing out an idle connection since pine is
> polling for new mail ever 150s.

Thank you all for comments and suggestions. It would not have occurred to me to 
set the keep-alive value that small, I will try that. That is a lot less 
irritating than my print a char script that mucks up emails. In google I found 
someone suggesting setting "IPQoS throughput" in $HOME/.ssh/config. I am going 
to try both when I next go to a 100% fail location. I'll report back.

I also find it strange that sitting in pine triggers the timeout but sitting 
idle for days does not.

Doug

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