3 Answers. When a connection is ended or fails (notice the “inactive” in the title bar), a new menu option appears in the window menu “Restart Session”. This will reconnect the session.
How do you resume an inactive PuTTY session?
- Start a screen session (on your remote host): $ screen.
- Disconnect from your screen session: CTRL-A , d.
- Reconnect to your screen session after logging back in again: $ screen -d -r.
- Open another screen ‘window’: CTRL-A , c.
- Cycle through your open screen windows: CTRL-A , space.
Why PuTTY gets disconnected frequently?
If you are still getting the error “Network Error: Software Caused Connection Abort” despite enabling TCP Keepalives, the problem may be due to an unreliable Internet connection. Monitoring your pings is a good way of determining if your internet connection is dropping packets and to blame for PuTTY disconnecting.
