Re: SSH Timeouts

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

I'm looking for other people who are having trouble maintaining idle SSH sessions.

As a Linux company with clients all over the geographic North America, we do a lot of SSH'ing. I'll risk sticking my networking foot in my mouth and say that I've found that certain network hops close idle TCP connections after a variable amount of time. By default, sshd does send TCPKeepAlive requests at regular intervals but it's possible that these are being ignored / discarded. The solution is to enable ClientKeepAliveInterval in your /etc/ssh/sshd_config on all the servers you connect to. I've found that a setting of 5 has worked everywhere.