Re: [MLUG] Accessing Bengal from home LAN

[Mark Rages <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 03:50:35PM -0500, Pottinger, Hardy J. wrote:
> > >Yup, but after some time it won't connect to Bengal anymore. 
> >  It is as 
> > >if there is something on the Bengal side preventing it from 
> > >reconnecting.  If I wait a while, it works again, mysteriously.
> > >  
> > >
> > Strange. Do you have problems connecting with ssh or scp when 
> > shfs won't connect?
> 
> Something else a VPN will get you, if you're running through a home
> router of some sort, is a much clearer connection through your router's
> firewall, if it has VPN pass-through. Reason I mention this is that your
> problem sounds like maybe your router is squashing packets for a while,
> until port numbers get back into a range it knows how to handle. If you
> haven't checked lately, and you are using a router at home, you might
> see if there's a newer firmware for it. In fact, my DLink router's
> original firmware dropped SSH sessions all the time...
> 

I'm using a Netgear wireless router, with recent firmware.  It drops 
idle connections after a couple minutes, but I'm using the openssh 
heartbeat patch, which lets me keep connections open much longer.  I 
highly recommend this patch to all cheapo-NAT-router users.

Like I said, I need to go home to test this.  I will set up a test, shfs 
mounting both my Mlug space and bengal space, to rule out Bengal as the 
problem.

Regards,
Mark
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