[KLUG Members] Dead ssh connections

[Adam Bultman]

Hello...

I'm currently sitting in a coffee shop downtown (Grand Rapids, that is).  
The coffeeshop is called It's a Grind.  

Anyway, they offer free Internet access via some DSL line, ut I'm having 
some problems, and I don't really know where to start here.

You can use the web, IM, or whatever on here (although I'm quite certain
that port 25 is locked off).  However, SSH connections, if left for a few
moments with no keyboard input, will simply die.  They just will 'not
work' anymore.  As well: If you say, want to use your local mail client,
and forward smtp or imap over your ssh connection to your mail server,
guess what happens? Your ssh session /immediately/ dies.  oh! One more
thing:  Any SCPs never finish: the file will be created on the remote
host, but will be of size '0'.  If you are like me, you have at least 5
terminals open to various areas, and it is a huge pain to kill the session 
and recreate it.


Does this sound like a QoS item?  Kill long-lasting sessions?  Don't allow 
persistent connections like SSH to continue if there's no traffic? It 
happens to any connection I make.  

Since I'm not here all the time, it doesn't bother me, but it's still 
really annoying.  I'm sure anything I come up with that would be a 
solution wouldn't be used...  Oh, well. Oddly, the only program I can get 
to work flawlessly is GAIM.



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