Question
How to keep SSH connection alive longer
- Posted on May 26, 2022
- DigitalOcean Droplets
Asked by atjbramley
I’ve followed the instructions in the 2 questions below:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/ssh-connection-drops-too-frequently https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/keep-my-ssh-session-alive
Despite this, my SSH connection drops extremely frequently, often after less than a minute of inactivity. When the connection drops, the terminal window freezes and I have to close it and open a new one. I know that the user session is kept alive for a while by the host.
Any suggestions beyond:
ClientAliveInterval 30 TCPKeepAlive yes ClientAliveCountMax 99999
and restarting the daemon?
Connecting from macOS Big Sur using iterm 2. Connections to other machines (not Digital Ocean) absolutely normal.
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Hi @atjbramley,
You need to edit your local SSH config as well. You’ve finished the first part with the questions you’ve provided.
What you need to do is add
locally.
There a couple of ways to do so. You can add it in the
/etc/ssh/ssh_configfile like soor in your .ssh/config file: