behaviour of ssh/scp over flakey links - timeout/retry?

[Dan Kaminsky]

> Yep, the connection is to a few IDS probes that are behind flakey
> switches and overloaded LANs.  We get a lot of dropped sessions.

Hmmm.  There's an interesting third option that attempts to stream all files
directly to a backend aggregator, using the file system only as a cache in
case connectivity is lost, if at all.

What's the datarate of each of your probes, worstcase?

--Dan