Actually the KeepAlive setting is not meant to keep a connection alive. It means the ssh connection should be terminated if the keepalive fails. Basically it's used to keep stale ssh processes from lying around if the connection goes down. (Especially useful on dialup)

duncan [duncan at sodatrain.com] wrote:
> Ive noticed that from various locations, i seem to get shorter or longer
> times before my ssh session disconnects between my dektop and my server
> that is co-lo'd.  KeepAlive is set to yes in sshd_config.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> thx
> 
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