If you ssh to hosts beyond a firewall or from within a NATted network then you’ll have noticed that SSH sessions timeout and get disconnected. I found that setting the TMOUT variable to 0 helped when not going through a firewall, and it must have been the firewall disconnecting an idle session otherwise.
Add this line to the sshd_config of the server and restart sshd. This will send a keep alive signal to the client every 360 seconds.
ClientAliveInterval 360
man 5 sshd_config will give you more information about that. This works in OpenSSH. I’m not sure if it’ll work elsewhere.
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Thanks! I had to reduce the time to 60 to fix the disconnects I was seeing, but this did the trick nicely.
This is a good tip. My users have been having this issue as well at a remote office, but in my case, it was my Juniper Netscreen causing the problems. I increased the timeout for that service and the issue went away
Awesome! Keep the great posts coming. This blog is a great reference for people who want to get stuff done and need a plain-English explanation.