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From: "James Hall" <james DOT c DOT hall AT ntlworld DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Newbie ssh question
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 20:31:21 -0000
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I've recently installed Cygwin and XFree86 on my W2K machine, and am highly
pleased with it.

Main use is to run stuff on my machine at work, and saves constantly
re-booting between Windows and Linux on my home machine.

I consequently make much use of ssh and X forwarding. All works excellently,
but for one problem. Any remote Xterm, unless used pretty constantly, falls
over with the message

	"Read from remote host x.x.x.x: Connection reset by peer
 	Connection to x.x.x.x closed."

If I keep the connection exercised (eg. run something like ping on the
Xterm) there is no problem, so I guess it may be a keep-alive problem. I
include the option `KeepAlive yes` in my (home) ssh_config file - there
appears to be no corresponding file on the remote (RH Linux) machine.
However when running my home machine as a Linux box to ssh into the same
machine at work there is no problem.

I find that the problem occurs when using a Cygwin Xterm, when running
XFree86 (with FVWM2), or Putty on W2K, so may be its something to do with
ssh on Windows.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

James Hall


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