Month: October 2012

SSH Alive 2

Perhaps this is an even better way of keeping things alive.

Use the following options either on the command line or in your /etc/ssh/ssh_config file (thats the path for Opensuse).

Host *
ServerAliveInterval 15
ServerAliveCountMax 4

I think this method might be more reliable.

SSH Keep Alive

Something that annoys me is when after a period of a couple of mins a firewall kills your ssh connection! Then you have a dead terminal that can take ages to timeout. So this is a solution, keeping it alive…

ssh -o TCPKeepAlive=yes user@some.host.com

Dead easy. I also have an alias in my .bashrc file in my home directory.

alias shortname=’ssh -C -o TCPKeepAlive=yes user@some.host.com’

So all have to do is type ‘shortname’ in the terminal and it would connect me to some.host.com. Much better. The big ‘C’ btw is for compression.