when last we saw our hero (Monday, Sep 01, 2003), rpgoldman at real-time.com was madly tapping out: > Steve --- > > Is there anything we can do to improve the robustness of our ssh > connections in these portal-based systems? I seem to get a lot of > dropped connections. I can live with it, but if there's anything I > can do to make it better, I'd love to hear it. candidly, ssh is the best tunneling mechanism when you have an instable connection. given the use of TCP as a transport mechanism you have all of the benefits of TCP and its connection resilience. brittle tunnel connections are typically symptomatic of considerable underlying network instability or a change in the end systems. most notably, a change in the IP address of the client from the perspective of the remote side (NAT funkiness) (forcing ssh to tear down the connection) and/or the decision of a portal to all of a sudden block packets destined for you. the best solution i've found is to take precautions to insure that when the connections do drop i'm minimally bitten by it. i.e.: use screen. -- steve ulrich sulrich at botwerks.org PGP: 8D0B 0EE9 E700 A6CF ABA7 AE5F 4FD4 07C9 133B FAFC _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list