using a mac with linux and filepro

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 06:43:30PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> 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!

NP.  :-)

> > 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.

Hmmm.  This *may* depend on whether you're using WZC or the card's
control software, as well.  And if it was critical, you might be able
to locate a pseudo-NAT, pseudo-ETH driver shim that would insulate you
from it.

Cheers,
-- jra
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