ssh & sftp terminal timeout

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Tony Crouch wrote:

> Hi All,
> I noticed of late my ssh & sftp connections have been timing out very
> quickly. If I leave my machine (or do not use the ssh connection) for
> even 10 minutes the connection will timeout and I will have to close the
> window and re-connect.
>
> I am unsure whether the problem exists with my local machine or my 
> university's servers (the machines to which I am remotely logging onto). 
> ...
>
> Was wondering if anyone could possibly shed some light on this or 
> provide some sort of explanation?

Not an explanation, but maybe a workaround.  How about setting the 
keepalive interval?

 	ssh -o ServerAliveInterval=120 my.ssh.host

will send keepalive signals every 120 seconds if the connection is idle. 
You can also include the option in ~/.ssh/config.

>
> Thanks for your assistance.
>
> Cheers,
> Tony Crouch
>
>
>

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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