[Gllug] Disconnected ssh sessions and pseudo-terminals

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 01:31:40PM +0000, damion.yates at gmail.com wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Ziya Suzen wrote:
> 
> > Sometimes I hate my ADSL provider. Connections keep dropping and I
> > loose my SSH connections.
> 
> Have you tried looking at ssh keepalive options?  I've had sessions open
> for weeks without issue with mine.  You could change ISPs.  Or perhaps a
> VPN to your shell account can retain an virtual interface and IP despite
> crumbling underlying connections?

He is loosing it because the broadband connection drops for a few seconds and this
causes the stateful firewall in the BB modem to reset.

I do just as you say with some sites, have a VPN - which is UDP based, so on
BB outage a few packets get lost and then everything is back where it was.
ssh sessions intact.

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