using a mac with linux and filepro

[Fairlight]

Is it just me, or did Jay Ashworth say:
> Keepalives.
> 
> As long as your workstation maintains the same address, PuTTY/SSH will
> survive the intervening link going away.

DOH.  And the TCPKeepAlive option, while missing from my Qube's
configuration entirely, defaults to "yes".  This is 99% of the time what
I'm using to ssh out.  I just added a "no" setting to it.  :)

THANK you.  It gets annoying when DSL acts up due to weather or whatever,
and when I need to try to boost the speed I've lost because it's too stupid
to fall forward on its own (or channels are flagged as bad), and I end up
having to re-login to multiple servers, vi -r mails I was in the middle of,
etc.

Again, THANK you!

> Now, if you unplug the ethernet cable, XP will dump the interface, and
> *that* will kill your session, but as long as the application's (and
> the server's) keepalives are disabled, then the session will survive
> anything except an IP address change, in my experience.

Unfortunately, XP (and 2000, actually) treats a WiFi desync where you
entirely lose the connection to the AP as an ethernet disconnect, so
nothing's going to protect me from those instances.  But that's more rare
than it used to be.  I think once in the last year, when it used to happen
a couple times a month.  And it happened on the laptop like once at a
hotel.

mark->
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