My MacOS Terminal keeps losing connection to other server

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My MacOS Terminal keeps losing connection to other server

I use my macOS Catalina Terminal app to connect to my home Ubuntu server. I also use putty.exe which is a Windows app.

My Mac Terminal app loses its connection to the Ubuntu server after X time of nonuse. Not sure what X is. But my Windows OS doesn't lose its connection at all. And yes, we're talking about them being connected at the same time.

Have looked in Mac's preferences but I can't find any stay alive type settings.

Anyone have any experience with this?

MacBook Pro

Posted on Dec 10, 2020 8:33 PM

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SergioQ Author

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Dec 12, 2020 3:10 PM in response to HWTech

On Linux (ssh)

To enable the keep alive system-wide (root access required), edit /etc/ssh/ssh_config; to set the settings for just your user, edit ~/.ssh/config (create the file if it doesn’t exist). Insert the following:

Host *
    ServerAliveInterval 300
    ServerAliveCountMax 2

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HWTech

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Dec 11, 2020 8:07 PM in response to SergioQ

Is your Mac going to sleep?

Did your Mac's network connection drop on the Mac side?

How are you connecting from the Mac?

Have you restarted your Mac?

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