Tip for SSH users with connection unexpectedly closed troubles

[Wayne Davison]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:32:04AM -0700, Phil Hassey wrote:
> someone suggested that I add this to my ~/.ssh/config file:
> 
> ServerAliveInterval 5
> ServerAliveCountMax 120

Those options only apply to protocol 2 connections (which people should
be using anyway these days).  There are also settings for KeepAlive,
ClientAliveInterval, and ClientAliveCountMax that someone might want to
fiddle with.

> it'd be great to add a suggestion to issues.html under
> 
> Q:  Why does my transfer die with something like the following error?

Good idea.  Thanks!

..wayne..