Dropping SSH connections over the internet

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 11:18 +0530, Raseel Bhagat wrote:

> 
> I can vouch for this too. In fact, sometimes the boards I work on are
> down for quite some time, upto a few hours, but when then come up, as
> long as the ~/.ssh/known_hosts file is not touched on my client, my
> ssh connection is only "paused" and "resumes" as soon as the board is
> up. 

This has little to do with SSH, but is the resiliency of TCP.  As long
as the state of the client and server sides of the TCP connection are
intact, a TCP connection will continue to work.  It is the way the
protocol was designed.

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