Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why?

From	Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why?
Date	2020-09-23 21:50 +0200
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Britton Kerin <britton.kerin@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm using ssh from a debian box to a rasberry pi (sorta debian also :).
>
> For some reason ssh sessions seem to time out pretty quickly.  I've
> tried setting ClientAliveInterval and ClientAliveCountMax and also
> ServerAliveInterval  and ServerAliveCountMax, but it doesn't seem to
> make any difference.  Is there some other setting somewhere that
> affects this?

Well, the keepalives themselves can cause a disconnect if the keepalive
messages are not reaching the other end due to bad connection for
example. Looks like by default in Debian client sends keepalives if
server is quiet but server doesn't send keepalives to a client.

You could try mosh instead of ssh. Or enable some debug printouts with
ssh -v (or -vv or -vvv for max messages) to see if that tells you why
the connection dropped.

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ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why? Britton Kerin <britton.kerin@gmail.com> - 2020-09-22 01:40 +0200
  Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why? Joseph Loo <jloo20111002@gmail.com> - 2020-09-22 01:50 +0200
  Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why? Toni Mas Soler <antomassol@gmail.com> - 2020-09-22 11:40 +0200
  Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why? Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-22 22:50 +0200
  Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2020-09-23 21:50 +0200
    Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-09-23 21:50 +0200
      Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why? Britton Kerin <britton.kerin@gmail.com> - 2020-09-26 23:20 +0200
        Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-09-28 14:10 +0200
      Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-09-29 14:20 +0200
        Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-09-29 14:50 +0200
          Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-09-29 15:00 +0200
            Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why? Tom Dial <tddial@comcast.net> - 2020-09-30 05:00 +0200
        Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-09-29 16:30 +0200
          Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why? tomas@tuxteam.de - 2020-09-29 16:40 +0200
            Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-09-29 16:50 +0200
              Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-09-29 17:00 +0200
          Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-09-29 16:50 +0200
            Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-09-29 17:20 +0200
              Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-09-29 17:30 +0200

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