OT: keepalive, PPPoE, and ssh - no joy

[Fairlight]

You'll never BELIEVE what Jay Ashworth said here...:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 06:43:57AM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> > Just for the record:  even with "TCPKeepAlive no" in ssh_config, openssh
> > still drops the second you kill PPPoE.  Just happened on a manual PPPoE
> > disconnect/reconnect all within 3 seconds.  OpenSSH_4.3p2 on linux kernel
> > 2.2.16C37_III (it's a Cobalt vendor release for a Qube3), behind a D-Link
> > DI-624 wireless router.
> 
> I assume you're using PuTTY; you checked "Seconds between Keepalives"
> in Connection to make sure it's 0, right?

Reading-impaired today?  OpenSSH 4.3p2 on linux kernel 2.2.16c37_111.
PuTTY didn't play into it.  My PuTTY stays up between 'doze and linux, but
the openssh from my linux to the solaris box *poofs* the second PPPoE goes
away.

> Oh, wait.  PPPoE.  Yeah; that means the interface is going away, I
> think, if you're terminating the PPPoE *on* the Qube.  If your PPPoE
> terminated in a router first, I think you'd be ok.

Nope.  The PPPoE is in the D-Link, and I'm screwed when that happens.

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