[BUGS] SSH timeout

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 11:26:47PM +1100, Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
> On this remote 4.2 stable box I'm having an issue with SSH timing out  
> or something.. It seems to be when I'm running a long command where I  
> don't provide any input for a few hours, like buildworld or a large  
> tar, cp, etc. I come back to find the message:
> 
> Read from remote host x.x.x.x: Connection reset by peer
> Connection to x.x.x.x closed.

Might have already been said: use sysutils/screen to run it under.

Is NAT involved? Blame your NAT gateway to timeout too early.
Try fiddling with net.inet.tcp.keepidle (default 2H).

If you have a Juniper netsecure gateway, set that to disable firewall
checks for SSH.

Edwin

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