ClientAliveInterval

[Sayan Chaliha]

@Damien, could you also tell me what would happen if the client didn't
respond to that request, and instead tried to create new session and channel
afresh? Would the server send the same message again?

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Sayan Chaliha wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am having some trouble with the ClientAliveInterval server setting. My
> > (C++) application fails to start an SSH channel to an OpensSSH server
> within
> > this time-out period if it doesn't reply correctly to this 'keep-alive'
> > no-op that is sent by the server. How is this no-op handled? I am using
> the
> > libssh client library, and I could find no references on how to handle
> this.
>
> Client aliver interval is implemented by sending a global or channel
> request of type "keepalive at openssh.com" with want-reply turned on.
> You shouldn't need to implement anything for this to work - a client
> should return SSH2_MSG_REQUEST_FAILURE if it doesn't implement this request
> type and that should be enough to reset the keepalive watchdog timer.
>
> If you would like to explicitly support it, you can just send an
> approprate SSH2_MSG_REQUEST_SUCCESS (global request) or
> SSH2_MSG_CHANNEL_SUCCESS (channel request) message, but this is purely
> optional.
>
> -d
>



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