Hi all,
do you know if is there any timeout on the sshof OSMC?
It happens to me that if I leave the shell where I’m connected via ssh for some minutes (don’t know how exactly) when I’m back on it it wan’t respond… seems freezed but if I open another tab of terminal I can succesfully connect again via ssh.
Nope, there is no timeout. I leave ssh sessions idle for hours sometimes without problems.
How are you connected - are you directly on the same network or going through a router ?
I’m going through a router (I’m forwarding a custom port to the ssh port of my raspy) and I’m connecting from internet (public ip )
Port forwarding goes through the NAT translation table on your router.
NAT tables have a timeout (which varies wildly from router to router but is typically about 15 minutes to 2 hours) after which a connection with no activity will be dropped. By default SSH connections do not send any tcp “keep-alive” packets when idle but some ssh clients allow you to enable a keep-alive.
PS I hope you have changed the default SSH password to a good strong one if you are port forwarding from the internet…
Thanks for your response! Now it’s clear to me why. 
Yes, of course I’ve changed the deault password and I’m using an external port that is different from the standad.
I’m using a Linux CentOS machine to connect… is there a way to enable the keepalive from the bash of the OS?
This would probably work:
Yes! It seems to works fine!
Thaaanks! What a great forum! 