OT: ISPs that drop connections

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, May 29, 2015, Bob Rasmussen via Filepro-list wrote:
> Hi gang. I need an update on this. If a customer runs SSH (or telnet) 
> over an internet connection, and experiences frequent drops, and you 
> complain to the ISP's tech support, and explain the difference between  
> connectionless protocols (HTTP) and connection-oriented protocols (SSH),  
> do you ever get satisfaction? Does the ISP ever change settings to 
> improve the situation? What settings?

I've found this type of thing is usually related to the local
router which times out after some period of inactivity.

One could specify 'ServerAliveInterval' in the ssh_config file
which, in theory, should take care of this and may be done on a
per-host basis.

When I have a system that does this, I try to remember to run
something like 'top' or ping that generates activity while I'm
not actually doing something.

Then there's the issue of leaving open connections unattended...

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