Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 02:14:11 +1030 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: Wayne Sierke <ws+freebsd-questions@au.dyndns.ws>, Rishi Chopra <rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh disconnecting [WAS: Getting Cut-Off] Message-ID: <200403070214.11899.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <1078563364.657.10.camel@ovirt.dyndns.ws> References: <40496C83.80605@cal.berkeley.edu> <1078563364.657.10.camel@ovirt.dyndns.ws>
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On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 19:26, Wayne Sierke wrote: > 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 transfe= r > > 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 connecti= on > > has been closed. > > > > No one else has physical access to the area when this occurs; can any= one > > tell me what's going on or what I need to do in order to keep from be= ing > > 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. > We have installed 15 EPIA systems and in a few months have had 3 mother=20 boards replaced for problems with the on board vr interface. A bit of a search reveals a large number of reported problems from most version of BSD, Linux and even the odd MS user. Some have added a PCI NIC= =2E Others swear they have no problems and that their systems are solid. There seems to be some hint that interference from the power supply gets = into and upsets the interface a few months down the track when the ESR of the power supply capacitors increases. Malcolm > > Wayne > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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