Re: ssh with keepalive?

["Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org>]

On 2004-02-17, Paul Johnson penned:
>
> One thing I've noticed is Comcast's network isn't the most reliable in
> the world when it comes to sustaining a connection with no activity.
> In putty, you can tell it to send a keepalive every n seconds, which
> for me, has been 100% reliable in maintaining the connection.
>
> I can't seem to find a similar option in ssh 1:3.6.1p2-12.  What do
> other people on budget networks do for keepalives?  (And for that
> matter, why doesn't every network-oriented program have some method to
> send a keepalive?)
>

This doesn't directly answer your question, but Colin recently revealed
that putty exists on debian, so ... that's one work-around.  You can
also use plink, the command-line tool, which can use putty's profiles.

Something like

plink @hostname

should work (assuming hostname is a profile that you've defined in
putty).

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monique