ssh session timing out

[matteo filippetto]

2009/11/26 Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com>:
> I have a weird situation that I do not understand.
>
> I have a computer running a custom java program that echos certain data
> to a port. The computer is located about 7 miles away in a not easily
> accessible location. It is running Xubuntu and is a 450 MHz computer
> with 384 MB RAM.
>
> On my home Ubuntu computer I open a terminal window, ssh to the remote
> computer and log in. Then I "telnet localhost 14508" to see the echo of
> the data I am interested in. It spits out a line from once in 3 seconds
> to once in 30 minutes.
>
> This works great on my main Ubuntu 8.04 computer with 2.4 GHz processor
> and 1.5 GB RAM running.  It will monitor the data for days.
>
> However, when I use an old 450 MHz Pentium computer with 256MB running
> Ubuntu 8.04 it works for an hour or two, then it says:
>
> "Read from Remote host ... Connection reset from peer
> Connection to ... closed"
>
> and it drops the ssh session.
>
> I have another old similarly configured computer at home that has the
> same problem.
>
> What is happening? How do I fix it?
>
> I am guessing the old computer is taking too long to respond to some
> type of handshaking and it drops the connection. If that is the case is
> there a parameter I can set to make the timeout a little longer?
>
> Kip
>
>
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Maybe this link can help you

http://ocaoimh.ie/89494277/how-to-fix-ssh-timeout-problems/

Best regards

-- 
Matteo Filippetto