Host Files not working.

Hello fellow Apple Users,

I am having persistent issues with ssh'ing into my work's server. After successfully logging on, within 5 to 30 seconds I get kicked out of the session with the error message, 'client_loop: send disconnect: Broken pipe'. When I logon to my account on my PC I have no problem.

I have looked into possible solutions to this problem - I have tried adding a flag to the ssh line -

sudo ssh -o IPQoS=throughput <username>@lxplus.cern.ch

I have also reinstalled the OS and after reinstallation, with a clean, updated OS and no user data, still got a broken pipe error.

This leads me to the most revealing attempt, which has uncovered a deeper problem, but I still have no idea why this is happening. When I add

Host *
    ServerAliveInterval 120
    TCPKeepAlive no

to "/etc/ssh/ssh_config" then source it, "source /etc/ssh/ssh_config" I get this error message:

Host: couldn't get address for 'Cern_Files': not found

Host: couldn't get address for 'Cern_Files': not found

/Users/<username>/.ssh/config:4: command not found: ServerAliveInterval

/Users/<username>/.ssh/config:5: command not found: ServerAliveCountMax

I can't find any documentation on these error and Im thinking that this could be the root problem causing me not to be able to ssh. Thank you for any help!

Greyson