On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 02:40:51PM -0500, Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> Good afternoon,
>
> Question for the group: I am connecting via SSH to my Kubuntu Netbook Dell
> Mini 9 with the proprietary Broadcomm card and the sessions seem to time out
> if I idle the session for longer then a minute. Is there a config in the
> system that is setting a time out or is it a problem with Broadcomm driver
> or a problem w/ something else?
>
> I usually connect via Putty on my Windows 7 machine, I don't experience the
> timeouts when I ssh to my Red Hat VM.
That's because Putty doesn't default timeout by sending keep alive packages
to the ssh server. ssh on the other hand doesn't do that by default (I
don't believe in Ubuntu it does). To prevent the timing out, add this to
your ~/.ssh/config
Host *
ServerAliveInterval=60
The number is in seconds, so you can try lower if it still times out. Now
before you say that ssh sucks because of that and Putty is better, remember
ssh is secure on our end, so this way when you log in via ssh to a machine,
you get up to grab yet another snack while in the office, some dude named
nixternal doesn't come by and hose up the machine you are connected to. I
know you Windows people aren't used to that thing called security
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question about SSH sessions timing out on Kubuntu Netbook
