How to keep ssh session alive longer

• More often ssh times out when the user is not using the terminal for a few minutes.
• The remote server disconnects the silent clients; Annoying!
• Two ways to resolve from client-side on Linux Mint/Ubuntu/Any

Way 1 (works great!)

• while connecting via ssh add few flags
• ssh -o ServerAliveInterval=60 <myname>@<myremote-host-or-ip-address>

Way 2

• nano $HOME/.ssh/config

  Host *
    ServerAliveInterval 240
  

• chmod 600 $HOME/.ssh/config

Alias ssh - Way 1

• In ~/.bashrc, towards the end

alias sshlive='ssh -o ServerAliveInterval=60'

• Open a new terminal or run source ~/.bashrc
• See, list of aliases that are set. Type alias
• Next time, when I want ssh we need not remember the long command.
• Just type sshlive user@hostname.
• Thanks to alias

Thanks

Cheers and thanks to SO!