How to fix SSH timeouts

This is such a nuisance. I don't know of anything more annoying than to walk away to the bathroom, kitchen or whatever; and come back to find your terminal session disconnected.

This can also be helpful when running jobs that take a little longer, but I would really advise using SCREEN for that.

We will tackle this problem from both ends, the server and the client.

On the server

Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and add the line:


ClientAliveInterval 60

On the client

Edit /etc/ssh/ssh_config and add the line:

ServerAliveInterval 60