On 02/13/2018 11:54 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2018-02-13, H <agents at meddatainc.com> wrote: >> 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. > > In that case sftp with the '-a' option would be a better choice. > or rsync --partial