On Jan 11, 2008 12:37 PM, Hal Burgiss <<a href="mailto:hal@burgiss.net">hal@burgiss.net</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 10:32:27AM -0500, Luis Mondesi wrote: > > The reason I know it's 2 different things is because we use 2 > different methods to connect to the same remote network. 1 from home > over public internet (timeout). 2 from one office on one location over > a private T1 going to a different router. </div>I'll add maybe a third scenario. I have at least six ssh sessions from home (DSL service with Ubuntu OS) to work (various Linux) 24/7. Every two or three days these all hang. Eventually, after maybe an hour I get a message about the connection and the prompt comes back. I can open another terminal and reconnect right away in the meantime or even kill the comatose sessions and reconnect, so it is not a server problem per se. I have had this happen while I am at the keyboard and it has almost always been during bad weather, like storms anywhere in the area. Not necessarily bad storms either, just some lightning here or there. Keepalive settings don't seem to help at all. Not all the disconnects are storm related, those are just the ones I have witnessed. My theory is some kind of packet corruption that "scares" the sshd end into not responding, and the connection dies because of tcp timeout. But just a wild theory. I'd love to know answer myself. </blockquote> <div> And you are not talking about Linksys wireless routers right? Because I know those drop a ridiculous number of connections, especially the wireless variety. Netgear and other vendors are rock solid. (This is all from my own experience of changing my Linksys routers once per year because they just pooh out. Since I switched vendors I've been running for about 2 years with no issues). </div></div> -- ----)(----- Luis Mondesi Maestro Debiano ----- START ENCRYPTED BLOCK (Triple-ROT13) ------ Gur Hohagh [Yvahk] qvfgevohgvba oevatf gur fcvevg bs Hohagh gb gur fbsgjner jbeyq. ----- END ENCRYPTED BLOCK (Triple-ROT13) ------