Do you get annoyed when you have a SSH session open, visit your browser for a while, and then return only to find you were disconnected? Most home NAT routers are the cause of this. If your router doesn’t offer an option to not shut off idle connections, you are probably better off by setting a keep-alive setting.
To do this, just open /etc/ssh/ssh_config on your home (client) computer. Add the following line:
ServerAliveInterval 180
There you have it! Just remember now, if you leave SSH open accidentally, anyone else can get on it. Remember to close your session when finished.
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Brian Pence wrote:
If you’re using AbsoluteTelnet (for Windows), you can do this from the Options->Properties->Connection page. There is an option there to enable keepalives and you can specify the duration between them.
Regards,
Brian Pence
# Posted on 19-Feb-08 at 11:15 pm
Lou Palladino wrote:
Make sure your SSH client supports SSH keepalives, or this won’t work either. You can set the TCP keepidle option to the value and that will fix it no matter what service (telnet/SSH) or client you are using. Procedures differ depending on the OS flavor.
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Why dont you just use a watch command with something simple like ls. for example the command “watch ls -la” and it will do it every two seconds or whatever time you designate. or if you want to make sure there isnt any system load do something like “watch echo “hello”;”
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