Re: openssh client alive not default

2015-06-27 Thread jungle Boogie
On 27 June 2015 at 18:17, Benny Lofgren wrote: > Let's say you have an open, but idle, ssh session to your remote server > and there's a short outage in the network somewhere between the two > endpoints. If there are no keep-alive packets trying to get through and > the actual session remains idle

Re: openssh client alive not default

2015-06-27 Thread jungle Boogie
Hi Josh, On 27 June 2015 at 17:59, Josh Grosse wrote: > On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 05:10:54PM -0700, jungle Boogie wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> I know fewer defaults the better for all, but if there a reason >> TCPKeepAlive in openssh is disabled along with the clientalive option? >> Is it just too ris

Re: openssh client alive not default

2015-06-27 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2015-06-28 02:59, Josh Grosse wrote: >> How do you folks manage ssh sessions not dying? Do you enable these >> options every time you install openssh on a new machine? Is there a >> better option? > The man page continues with, "The client alive mechanism > is valuable when the client or server

Re: openssh client alive not default

2015-06-27 Thread Josh Grosse
On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 05:10:54PM -0700, jungle Boogie wrote: > Hello All, > > I know fewer defaults the better for all, but if there a reason > TCPKeepAlive in openssh is disabled along with the clientalive option? > Is it just too risky and/or unneeded? Well, Mr. Boogie, TCPKeepAlive is enable

openssh client alive not default

2015-06-27 Thread jungle Boogie
Hello All, I know fewer defaults the better for all, but if there a reason TCPKeepAlive in openssh is disabled along with the clientalive option? Is it just too risky and/or unneeded? How do you folks manage ssh sessions not dying? Do you enable these options every time you install openssh on a n