Anti-idle in OpenSSH client?

[Mark Janssen]

On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 21:14, mandar at webchat.chatsystems.com wrote:
> On 4 Apr 2003, Mark Janssen wrote:
> 
> > There are various patches floating around that implement a feature to
> > send null packets every x seconds... The debian packaged version of
> > openssh includes one of these. Works perfectly.
> >
> > Search around bugzilla or the debian patch for openssh ;)
> >
> 
> Couldn't find one...a URL would help..thanks!

Look for the 'protocolkeepalive' code in this patch:
http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openssh/openssh_3.6p1-1.diff.gz

It sends SSH Ignore packets every 300 (configurable) seconds

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