[CentOS] Problem with ssh disconnecting

[H]

On 02/12/2018 07:24 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2018-02-12, H <agents at meddatainc.com> wrote:
>> Running CentOS 7 on workstation and having a problem with ssh
>> disconnects. My ssh_config contains:
>>
>> Host *
>> TCPKeepAlive yes
>> ServerAliveInterval 30
>> ServerAliveCountMax 300
>>
>> and sshd_config on the server contains:
>>
>> TCPKeepAlive yes
>> ClientAliveInterval 60
>> ClientAliveCountMax 300
>>
>> Have I missed any setting needed to prevent these random disconnects?
>> I don't think there is anything wrong with the network card, the
>> driver, or the cable, since if I am on a VPN connection via another
>> server, the VPN and any ssh connection stay up indefinitely.
>>
>> Thanks.
> Another poster has provided some possible reasons for the
> disconnections. Whatever the cause, autossh (from the epel repo) is a
> good workaround.
>
Not that this happens while I do large scp file transfers that may take more than half an hour, simply restarting an ssh session is not going to help since I will lose the file transfer.