to reach non-public services (eg imap and pop) on my server, i am using ssh for forwarding ports over a secure connection to this server. i think this is a common procedure, nothing new to you.
but my problem is that i sometimes use wlan to connect to the network and under some circustances the packet loss is very high, caused by a low link quality (e.g. neighbours start a machine, to far away from the accesspoint, ...).
most of the time the link is fine and the connection is running without a problem, but sometimes the ssh connection (the whole connection, not only the forwarded ones) stops responding and it hangs for several minutes until it resumes. and during this time nothing works. i reckon this is caused by the lost packages.
i have tried to turn the verbose mode of ssh on, but this does not help. nothing shown. my guess: a problem/feature/config on the tcp-layer below.
does any of your gurus here have an idea to make the "recovery" of the ssh-session faster?
TIA, gottfried
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