2 SSH questions: why does it pause so much, and, can I keep connection alive?

From: Michael Levin (mlevin77_at_comcast.net)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 00:57:34 GMT

I'm running SSH clients on a Mac OSX to connect to a Unix box. Does anyone
have any thoughts on the following:

1) it works ok to connect, but every 30 seconds or so, everything freezes,
and I have to wait a while (another 30 seconds). In the meantime, my
keystrokes get saved, but it's a pain in the ass when doing real-time word
processing (in Emacs) for example. What's going on? Why is it jumpy like
that? The host machine is not busy, and I'm on a T1 line at work, so I can't
believe it's network throughput or CPU time issues. Maybe I have some sort
of parameter set wrong? Has anyone else observed this sort of intermittent
pausing?

2) If I open a connection, and don't touch it for some minutes, the host
disconnects, leaving me with an unresponsive window - have to close it and
re-connect. Is there any tweak that I can use to keep the connection alive?
I don't own the host machine, so I wouldn't be able to muck with the ssh
server on that side, but maybe there's some trick for making it stay
connected?

Thanks in advance! 

-- 
Mike Levin
mlevin77@comcast.net

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