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To: "James Hall" <james DOT c DOT hall AT ntlworld DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Newbie ssh question
References: <ADEFIOEJFOPKHEDNFOMOIEIOCAAA DOT james DOT c DOT hall AT ntlworld DOT com>
From: Adrian Phillips <adrianp AT powertech DOT no>
Date: 06 Jan 2002 11:15:46 +0100
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>>>>> "James" == James Hall <james DOT c DOT hall AT ntlworld DOT com> writes:

    James> I've recently installed Cygwin and XFree86 on my W2K
    James> machine, and am highly pleased with it.

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

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

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

Do you have a firewall in between. Firewalls throw away connections
when there unused for a while,

Try turning on KeepALive (or whatever the option is called now),

Sincerely,

Adrian Phillips

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