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Every time I connect to a server with ssh, the connection is reset after a few minutes if there is no input. However, I want to remove these timeouts as to keep the connection alive for as long as possible.
By looking on different forums, I saw it was possible to modify the ServerAliveInterval option in the /etc/ssh_config file. However, there doesn’t seem to be this option in my file. Where could it be?
I’m running OpenSSH_5.2p1 on Snow Leopard.
Thanks!
Server Alive interval simply sends a null packet to the server at a set time to keep the connection alive, you should just be able to add some thing like into your config file:
~/.ssh/configThe second line must be indented with at least one space.
*will match any host; if you wanted you could restrict this to particular destinations like *somedomain.com.Check out http://kehlet.cx/articles/129.html