OT: keepalive, PPPoE, and ssh - no joy

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 05:12:49PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> > 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.

No; I assumed that if you saw fit to mention a kernel version, that
OpenSSH was a server version.  I was therefore  inquiring about the
client.  Both ends can send keepalives;  I was clear about that, right?

> 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.

Then the problem continues to sound like keepalives.  tcpdump, perhaps?

Cheers,
-- jra
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