From owner-freebsd-security Thu Sep 9 0:35:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22F67150BD for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 00:35:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id IAA27000; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 08:35:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 08:35:05 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: "James C. Durham" Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ssh disconnects Message-ID: <19990909083505.F58237@florence.pavilion.net> References: <199909090021.AAA27391@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <199909090021.AAA27391@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, 24 The Old Steine, Brighton, BN1 1EL, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:21:04AM +0000, James C. Durham wrote: > 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.. > I have the same problem, more or less. It occurs when my winbox goes into sleep mode - during that time all TCP connections get severed at some point, including interactive session - well annoying! Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message