Anti-idle in OpenSSH client?

[Frank Cusack]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 09:39:32AM -0600, mandar at webchat.chatsystems.com wrote:
>    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..

See ssh_config(5), look for KeepAlive.

/fc