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Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 09:39:37 -0500
From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Wayne Sierke wrote:
[ ... ]
> I've been having a similar problem, afaict since I moved my server to
> 5.2-RELEASE from 4.8-RELEASE and to a EPIA 5000 board (from a Pentium
> system).
> 
> I've not had a disconnection while I've been actively using the
> connection but most connections that are left idle get disconnected
> after a while (seems to be around 10 to 15 minutes).

[a light blinks!]  By any chance are you enabling APCI and having your machine 
go into power-saving mode after 15 minutes or so?  Your ssh connection won't 
wake up even if your machine does when you come back later... :-)

-- 
-Chuck