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Comment by Squeeeez

1 month ago

Have you looked into enabling ssh keep alive/server alive?

From what I've read, TCPKeepAlive can be a good or a bad thing. On the one hand, sending a packet every now and then can dissuade a middle box from dropping the connection. On the other hand, if the connection is temporarily not working and would have started working again a few minutes later the attempt to send an unnecessary packet could cause the connection to break permanently when it wouldn't otherwise have broken. I suppose that next time I have a recurring problem I should try both.

  • Sharing in case this can help you in the future, this is what works for me with Termux in .ssh/config

      ServerAliveInterval 120
      ServerAliveCountMax 30
      TCPKeepAlive yes