Way to prevent SSH sessions from timing out?

Hey,

There's 2 suggestions, and two ways to adjust timeout. My first suggestion is to not use SSH in the first place but a tool called MoSH. I use it myself and works great for this situation, changing IPs, high-latency connections, etc.

Now if you don't want to install anything else, you can adjust timeouts both server side and client side. Server side, in /etc/ssh/sshd_config you should make sure the following is set:

TCPKeepAlive yes
ClientAliveCountMax 99999
ClientAliveInterval 30

Client side, you should have the following set in ~/.ssh/config:

ServerAliveInterval 100

For both ServerAliveInterval or ClientAliveInterval, this is telling SSH how often is should poll the connection, preventing the connection from timing out. ClientAliveCountMax is how many times to poll before considering the client dead.

I hope that helps.

Thanks. I'll give this a try. It's probably also necessary to restart SSH on the server with: sudo service ssh restart