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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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Posted on Dec 12, 2020 3:10 PM

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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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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My MacOS Terminal keeps losing connection to other server

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