From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 6 00:55:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B3F516A4CE for ; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 00:55:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from lillith-iv.ovirt.dyndns.ws (ppp36-152.lns1.adl1.internode.on.net [150.101.36.152]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A5BD43D1F for ; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 00:55:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ws+freebsd-questions@au.dyndns.ws) X-Envelope-From: ws+freebsd-questions@au.dyndns.ws X-Envelope-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from [192.168.100.132] (ppp36-152.lns1.adl1.internode.on.net [150.101.36.152])i268tUa8086390; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 19:25:31 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from ws+freebsd-questions@au.dyndns.ws) From: Wayne Sierke To: Rishi Chopra In-Reply-To: <40496C83.80605@cal.berkeley.edu> References: <40496C83.80605@cal.berkeley.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1078563364.657.10.camel@ovirt.dyndns.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 19:26:05 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0 () X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.38 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ssh disconnecting [WAS: Getting Cut-Off] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 08:55:38 -0000 On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 16:45, Rishi Chopra wrote: > I have two machines in my loft (a FreeBSD server and a Win2k box) > connected via CAT5 crossover cable. > > I connect to the FreeBSD machine via SSH, and use secure file transfer > to upload/download from the machine. > > In the last week, the FreeBSD machine has dropped my connection on 3 > seperate occasions. I'll queue up some work and leave the machine > unattended, only to return at a later time and find that the connection > has been closed. > > No one else has physical access to the area when this occurs; can anyone > tell me what's going on or what I need to do in order to keep from being > disconnected in the future? > > Unfortunately the file transfer client portion of SSH Secure Shell is > very poor at resuming queued work, so this is starting to cause me an > inconvinience. I've been having a similar problem, afaict since I moved my server to 5.2-RELEASE from 4.8-RELEASE and to a EPIA 5000 board (from a Pentium system). I've not had a disconnection while I've been actively using the connection but most connections that are left idle get disconnected after a while (seems to be around 10 to 15 minutes). This happens consistently at the moment from my development system which can be running any of 5.2-RELEASE, Windows 98SE or Windows 2000 and has been seen to occur on another couple of systems. My suspicions currently lie with the on-board network adapter on the EPIA board using the vr driver but I have no direct evidence to support it, other than I don't recall ever seeing it with my old server. Wayne