Re: ClientAliveInterval question

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_zip.com.au)
Date: 02/06/04

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    Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 13:47:11 +1100
To: Jason Parsons <jparsons3@mac.com>

    Jason Parsons wrote:
    > I have a firewall that isn't being useful about keeping idle ssh
    > sessions from expiring out of its state table. I have found that
    > ClientAliveInterval on the server side fixes these timeouts. However, I
    > don't have control over sshd on every system I login to. Is there a way
    > for the ssh *client* to ask for a ClientAliveInterval to be set on a
    > per-session basis, without having to edit sshd_config?

    The following assumes you're referring to OpenSSH...

    Not right now. (At least, not with a vanilla release, there are
    third-party patches around to add that kind of thing).

    The next release, however, will have a ssh_config option
    "ServerAliveInterval". It's already in the development snapshots now.

    $ man ssh_config
    [snip]
    ServerAliveInterval
          Sets a timeout interval in seconds after which if no data has
          been received from the server, ssh will send a message through
          the encrypted channel to request a response from the server. The
          default is 0, indicating that these messages will not be sent to
          the server. This option applies to protocol version 2 only. 

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