Request: Please incorporate Hideaki Gotos Watchdog patch into OpenSSH

[Peter Lowe]

Hello,

Hideaki Goto has written a patch for OpenSSH that adds heartbeat and watchdog
functions to OpenSSH:

	http://www.sc.isc.tohoku.ac.jp/~hgot/sources/openssh-watchdog.html

The heartbeat function sends an SSH_MSG_IGNORE packet every <n> seconds to
the server, and the watchdog function checks incoming packets only to see if
the connection has been interrupted.

Where I work, all Internet connections go through an HTTPS proxy. Without
this patch, I wouldn't be able to stay connected to any outside servers
at all, because the proxy's timeout is about 30 seconds.

Please incorporate this patch into OpenSSH proper -- it's very very useful.
I'm sure there are plenty of people in the same situation that would benefit
from it.

regards,

Peter Lowe.

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