Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-07 Thread Frans Pop
tags 458154 pending thanks On Monday 07 January 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > I think that the text talking about NAT could be used in place of the > "depending on your local network setup" like "one common case where > this may happen is when there is some form of Network Address > Translation (

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2008-01-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tags 458154 pending Bug#458154: Document how to avoid dropped network-console connections Tags were: moreinfo Tags added: pending > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (a

Bug#458154: Processed: Re: Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-07 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > So the question still is _why_ ssh drops the connection in your case. Some crappy routers and firewalls do this to TCP connections that pass through them. > Also, the solution you propose is on the _client_ side, so is not something > we can fix in the installer. The only thin

Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-07 Thread Otavio Salvador
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The ssh server in the installer uses a default > configuration that does not send keep-alive packets. In principle, > a connection to the system being installed should be kept open > indefinitely. However, in some situations — depending on your > local netwo

Bug#458154: Processed: Re: Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-07 Thread Del Merritt
Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 12:12:21AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: However, the fact remains that _we_ have so far not been able to reproduce the issue. As I've said earlier, I've had an SSH install sitting unused for over 4 hours without the connection being lost, with basically

Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 07 January 2008, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Would the following text be OK for the installation guide (to be added > > as a note in the network-console section)? > > > > > > The ssh server in the installer uses a default > > configuration that does not have a timeout set. > > "keepalive"

Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:58:11PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 07 January 2008, Colin Watson wrote: > > I agree that documenting this is the best approach. > > Thanks for the info Colin. > > Would the following text be OK for the installation guide (to be added as a > note in the network

Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-07 Thread Otavio Salvador
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > reassign 458154 installation-guide > retitle 458154 Document how to avoid dropped network-console connections > thanks > > On Monday 07 January 2008, Colin Watson wrote: >> I agree that documenting this is the best approach. > > Thanks for the info Colin. >

Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:58:11PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > reassign 458154 installation-guide > retitle 458154 Document how to avoid dropped network-console connections > thanks > > On Monday 07 January 2008, Colin Watson wrote: > > I agree that documenting this is the best approach. > > Thanks

Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-07 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 458154 installation-guide retitle 458154 Document how to avoid dropped network-console connections thanks On Monday 07 January 2008, Colin Watson wrote: > I agree that documenting this is the best approach. Thanks for the info Colin. Would the following text be OK for the installation g

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2008-01-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 458154 installation-guide Bug#458154: [NSLU2] ssh connection should not time out Bug reassigned from package `network-console' to `installation-guide'. > retitle 458154 Document how to avoid dropped network-console connections Bug#458154: [NSL

Bug#458154: Processed: Re: Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 12:12:21AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > However, the fact remains that _we_ have so far not been able to reproduce > the issue. As I've said earlier, I've had an SSH install sitting unused for > over 4 hours without the connection being lost, with basically default SSH > set

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2008-01-06 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 458154 [NSLU2] ssh connection should not time out Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install Changed Bug title to `[NSLU2] ssh connection should not time out' from `network-console: long time-out time during

Bug#458154: Processed: Re: Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-06 Thread Frans Pop
retitle 458154 [NSLU2] ssh connection should not time out tags 458154 + moreinfo thanks On Friday 04 January 2008, G. Del Merritt wrote: > Please note: I was not able to recover "gracefully" from the timeout. That is expected. As the installation process itself runs almost entirely in memory and

Re: Processed: Re: Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-04 Thread G. Del Merritt
connection should not time out'. Really? I think the prior title was more appropriate: during an install, the ssh connection should not time out. tags 458154 -unreproducible Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install Tags were: unreproducible Tags remov

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2008-01-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
t to `wishlist' from `normal' > retitle 458154 network-console: long time-out time during install Bug#458154: [NSLU2] ssh connection should not time out Changed Bug title to `network-console: long time-out time during install' from `[NSLU2] ssh connection should not time out&#x

Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-02 Thread Geert Stappers
#Op 02-01-2008 om 02:17 schreef Rick Thomas: #> #> Maybe this could be set for installations? It's not a good idea to set it #> for the installed config file, for just the kind of security reasons Del #> alludes to above. But it could save some long-running installations on #> difficult to acc