Prevent SSH timeouts: disable keepalive

By Andy

I never had the problem at home but on many other networks an idle connection would drop after a couple of minutes. I added this to ~/.ssh/config several hours ago and haven’t lost a connection since:

TCPKeepAlive no
ServerAliveInterval 20
ServerAliveCountMax 10

It’s counter-intuitive but it works for me. The usual disclaimers apply.

Tags: linux, ssh

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