From owner-freebsd-security Wed Sep 8 23:34: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BC7C1521E for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 23:33:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5692) with ESMTP id IAA08923; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 08:33:00 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 08:33:01 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: "James C. Durham" Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ssh disconnects In-Reply-To: <199909090021.AAA27391@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Best guess: A firewall is expiring your connection. If you have the problem that ftp connection go slower and slo-wer and slo-w-e-r after the first MegaByte, you probably use the same product as our friends around here. Nick > I have ssh forwarding ports from a machine on the internet to > another machine with a private IP here at my house. > > Everything works fine, except that the connection drops at irregular > intervals, from 20 minutes to 2 or 3 days with a "connection reset > by peer" message. > > I've experimented with keepalive and timeout in the config stuff to > no avail. The only thing that seems to help is to run a script > that sends the date from the remote server every 10 seconds. This > makes it stay up for a couple days. > > What's going on here? Any ideas? It's very annoying.. > > -Jim Durham > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > -- ISIS/STA, T.P.270, Joint Research Centre, 21020 Ispra, Italy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message