Boniforti Flavio wrote:
>>> Nice, but what happens if the SSH goes down? It is also my concern! 
>>> :-/
>> Ssh is pretty robust, but if you have keys set up for 
>> passwordless connections you could wrap it in a shell loop 
>> that runs it again if it exits.
> 
> Well, actually my main concern is about transfers getting dropped: I've
> noticed following in my ZyXEL router...
> 
>  msg="Firewall session time out, sent TCP RST: TCP"
>  msg="Firewall session time out, sent TCP RST: TCP"
> 
> :-/

The NAT-table timeout should be tunable in the router.  Set it to more 
than a day if you do daily backups through the connection. Or, enable 
TCP keepalives for ssh so the connection will appear to have activity 
(ServerAliveInterval on the client side or TCPKeepAlive in sshd config).

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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