[Gllug] Connection reset by peer

[Tom Schutzer-Weissmann]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 18:05 +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:50:36PM +0100, Tom Schutzer-Weissmann wrote:
> > vnc and ssh are pretty much unusable for me, sessions keep breaking with
> > the error "Connection reset by peer". It must be to do with my network
> > setup, but'm having problems pinning it down. 
> 
> Some crappy ADSL routers (like mine) drop NAT connections after a very
> short and non-configurable timeout.  The solution - apart from
> throwing away aforementioned broken routers - is to send TCP keepalive
> packets to keep the connection up.

So you're saying that if the connection's been NATed before it gets to
the router then the router's liable to drop it? I had just assumed that
the problem was with the linux box that was doing the pre-ADSL router
NAT. Rank heresy...

tcp_keepalive_time on the linux router or the vnc client seems to make
no difference tho'.

cheers,
Tom Weissmann




		
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