autossh software package provides Automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install autossh
autossh is installed in your system.
Make ensure the autossh package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep autossh *
You will get with autossh package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Network |
| Package | autossh |
| Version | 1.40E-002 |
| Description | Automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels |
| Sub Section | Net |