Annoying disconnects

B

Barney

Does anyone know why Freebsd disconnects connections on some sort of idle timeout when running a tail? I often run stuff like

Code: 
tail -f /var/log/LOGFILE
and after a few minutes the connection gets terminated with "connection terminated by foreign host" if I'm just sitting in a shell it doesnt get disconnected
 
Do you mean something like ssh versus being at the physical terminal?

If yes, then disconnects like that are either the remote host or a firewall, but can be something in putty (if you are using something like putty) like keepalives.
 
It has something to do with the provider. I never had the problem on uverse internet. With cox it's a regular thing.
 
If it's the provider then you can try and work around it with keepalives in the client - so that the provider doesn't think the connection is idle and drops it.
 
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