[olug] ssh ServerAliveInterval

[Christopher Cashell]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Jay Hannah <jhannah at mutationgrid.com> wrote:
> Oh, well that's damn handy...
>
> ~/.ssh$ cat config
> ServerAliveInterval 5
>
> No more idle disconnects for me!  :)

There's a handful of handy config options you can tweak the defaults on:

topher at nexus:~$ cat ~/.ssh/config
Host crucible.lab13.org
   User cpc

Host *.lab13.org *.zyp.org
   User topher
   ForwardAgent yes
   ForwardX11 yes
   ForwardX11Trusted yes

Host *
   TCPKeepAlive yes
   ServerAliveInterval 20
   ServerAliveCountMax 6
   ForwardAgent no
   ForwardX11 no
   ForwardX11Trusted no
   NumberOfPasswordPrompts 5
   Compression yes
   CompressionLevel 6
   ControlPath ~/.ssh/master-%l-%r@%h:%p
   ControlMaster auto
   # The following should be changed to "Protocol 2" as soon as the last device
   # on the network that only supports SSHv1 goes away.
   Protocol 2,1
   Cipher blowfish
   Ciphers aes128-cbc,blowfish-cbc,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,3des-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour128,arcfour256,arcfour
   PreferredAuthentications publickey,password


> Jay Hannah

-- 
Christopher