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Mobaxterm connects to Ubuntu server through SSH network error: software caused connection abort

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Naomi Fridman

MobaXterm v21.1 connects to Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS server through SSH disconnects all the time after short idle time, with this error: network error: software caused connection abort. I tried everything written here: https://programmerah.com/mobaxterm-connects-to-ubuntu-server-through-ssh-network-error-software-caused-connection-abort-43897/

  • changed setting of Mobaextrem to keep alive
  • edited /etc/ssh/sshd_config
    • TCPKeepAlive yes
    • ClientAliveInterval 60

I even left a top command running in the terminal, didn't help.

Is there an option that the disconnect is coming from the Ubuntu side ? Any idea how to solve it will be much appreciated.

** edit **

checking /var/log/auth.log

I see:

Mar  3 01:12:09 COSDEVVIS12 sshd[1529012]: Timeout, client not responding from user naomi <myip> port 59737

Beginning of /etc/ssh/sshd_config is:

#       $OpenBSD: sshd_config,v 1.103 2018/04/09 20:41:22 tj Exp $

# This is the sshd server system-wide configuration file.  See
# sshd_config(5) for more information.
/etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/*.conf

I run

/usr/sbin/sshd -ddd -p 10022

I get:

/etc/ssh/sshd_config: line 5: Bad configuration option: /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/*.conf

...

/etc/ssh/sshd_config: terminating, 1 bad configuration options
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Maik

How long does it take to disconnect when you are idle?

Try changing your ClientAliveInterval to something smaller, like 5 (this will send the null packet every 5 seconds, instead of every minute as you have set now).

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Naomi Fridman
I don't know exactly, but less then 2 hours. I'm working with jupyter notebook, running on chrome on my local computer. I train dl networks, and it gets disconnected in the middle of training. I will try to change ClientAliveInterval as you suggested.
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Naomi Fridman
changing ClientAliveInterval to 5, don't solve the problem.
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Maik
It could be that the problem lies in the connection reliability on your side. Try this -- connect to your Ubuntu Server in MobaXterm, then open a command prompt in Windows and ping the server for awhile `ping server.ip.here -t` and see if you get any time-outs.
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Maik
The beginning of your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file is missing "Include" --- `Include /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/*.conf`
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