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

[carl at bl.echidna.id.au]

> From: "Dan Kaminsky" <dan at doxpara.com>
> 
> > 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?

I'm not sure, I'm not involved in that part of the system
much.