My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions
> This happened one day while I was transferring a VM image in the hundreds of gigabytes from one server to another using netcat like so:
> ...
> my SSH connections had died yet again. And sshd had taken netcat down with it, killing the transfer midway.<p>As somebody who has experienced the described behaviour, I can empathise because it is super annoying.  But this isn't a particular good point with which to illustrate it.  If you're doing any sort of work on one or more remote servers that shouldn't be accidentally terminated like a large data transfer, you should be backgrounding it with screen or similar.  Even for users without the idel connection dropping as described, the Internet can still fail.