* Monique Y. Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-02-17 14:50]: > 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). > While ssh does not have a command-line option for keepalive, there is a config file option. See man ssh_config
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