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Mastering Linux Network Administration
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Mastering Linux Network Administration

by Jay LaCroix
November 2015
Beginner
260 pages
6h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Keeping SSH connections alive

Depending on how your SSH server or internal firewalls are configured, your SSH session may automatically disconnect after some time. It's possible to configure SSH to send a special packet every certain number of seconds, to keep the connection from idling and becoming a candidate for disconnection. This is useful if you have a service that utilizes SSH, that you do not want to be disconnected. To employ this tweak, we must configure the ServerAliveInterval setting.

There are two ways of configuring this, one that affects your user account and another that will deploy the setting system wide. First, let's explore how to configure this for your user account.

Remember the ~/.ssh/config file that we configured earlier ...

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