Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Mauriat Miranda wrote: > >> Does anybody have any idea or hints? Seen something like this before? >> Am I missing something critical (obvious)? > > A customer had a similar problem. It was caused by a firewall / router > box (sorry, forgot which) at his end killing the connection because of > its own (stupid) idea that the connection was idle for too long. I've seen this even for cheap NAT boxes that time-out the NAT mapping after 10 minutes or so of not seeing a packet. Adding the following to /etc/ssh/sshd_config fixed that problem, along with cleaning up any idle connections that are related to a machine just dropping off the net without first exiting sshd. ClientAliveInterval 60 ClientAliveCountMax 30 -wolfggang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ Direct SIP URL Dialing: http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/phonedirectory.html