[sf-lug] keep alive time for an ssh connection

Asheesh Laroia asheesh at asheesh.org
Sun Dec 21 22:49:17 PST 2008


On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Alex Kleider wrote:

>
> --- On Sun, 12/21/08, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
>
>> However, it's actually "ServerAliveInterval
>> 5" (or such) that you
>
> Rick,
>
> $ ssh -o ServerAliveInterval=5 <sshserverhost>

See also my ~/.ssh/config file, at:

http://svn.asheesh.org/svn/public/conf/ssh_config .

I should probably stop specifying Blowfish....  Anyway, I like 
ServerAliveInterval 60 because it gives me some time if the network went 
down temporarily.

-- Asheesh.

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