Anti-idle in OpenSSH client?

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 16:39, mandar at webchat.chatsystems.com wrote:
> Heya,
> 
>    Most of the windows ssh clients (putty, securecrt) have anti-idle
> features. They offer either a null packet or protocol no-op or user
> defined string to be sent over every x seconds.
> 
>    Is this possible or planned with the OpenSSH client? Our draconian
> firewall admins have started timing out ssh sessions. Yes I'm aware I
> could hack up a port forwarding dumb traffic process, but was looking for
> a more elegant solution like the windows clients have. e.g. a command line
> option to ssh that lets you anti-idle..

This would also be useful when using a ProxyCommand which connects via
an HTTP proxy, which often have similar timeouts.

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dwmw2