reply to self : i have understand since that "client alive messages"
will not be sent because ClientAliveInterval is set to zero.

This has nothing to do with the problem so far.


Joe Linux wrote:
> Hello
>
> I've seen this problem adressed many times but never found a suitable
> answer. Here is a brief description :
> An ssh client tries to connect to a sshd server, and it works most of
> the time. But sometimes, and it's fairly impossible to predict (and
> obviously to reproduce), the connexion fails with a message that said :
>
> ssh_exchange_identification: read: A connection with a remote socket
> was reset by that socket.
>
> In my configuration, i had constated that the problem is more likely to
> occur when there are multiple concurrent connexions on the sshd. I had
> done what i can to lessen this number, but now it comes again.
>
> I have seen two options in the manual page : ClientAliveCountMax and
> ClientAliveInterval. Could someone tell me if they may be related to
> the problem, or not ? They are not present in the ssd_config file on my
> server, so their default values (resp. 3 and 0) applies.
>
> Unfortunately, i can't debug the problem as i would because the
> environnement can't easily be changed.
>
> Version of the software is OpenSSH_3.8.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7d 17 Mar 2004
> on AIX 5.3 (client and server are on the same type of soft/hardware).
>
> Thanks for any or clue.
>
> Denis Valdenaire