How to keep your SSH session alive (Linux, Mac)

Your ssh session is automatically disconnected after the idle time, if you want to keep the connection alive, do as follow:

1. Open terminal
2. Edit ssh_config

sudo nano /etc/ssh/ssh_config

3. Add the following line to the end of the file

          ServerAliveInterval 5

4. Ctrl+X and enter y to save the files

5. You are done!

You can change 5 to any number, here 5 is the number of seconds for the clients to sends a small keep-alive packet to the server so that the connection is not disconnected.

Hope this help!