I've recently installed Cygwin and XFree86 on my W2K machine, and am highly
pleased with it.
Main use is to run stuff on my machine at work, and saves constantly
re-booting between Windows and Linux on my home machine.
I consequently make much use of ssh and X forwarding. All works excellently,
but for one problem. Any remote Xterm, unless used pretty constantly, falls
over with the message
"Read from remote host x.x.x.x: Connection reset by peer
Connection to x.x.x.x closed."
If I keep the connection exercised (eg. run something like ping on the
Xterm) there is no problem, so I guess it may be a keep-alive problem. I
include the option `KeepAlive yes` in my (home) ssh_config file - there
appears to be no corresponding file on the remote (RH Linux) machine.
However when running my home machine as a Linux box to ssh into the same
machine at work there is no problem.
I find that the problem occurs when using a Cygwin Xterm, when running
XFree86 (with FVWM2), or Putty on W2K, so may be its something to do with
ssh on Windows.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
James Hall
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