Another question about tunnelling

Matt Johnston matt at ucc.asn.au
Tue Sep 19 17:27:18 WST 2006


On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 04:33:30PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> To stop it from terminating, I have to send something:
> 
>     (while:; do sleep 20; echo keepalive; done) | \
>         dbclient -T -i $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.db -R 10000:127.0.0.1:23 user at host \
>             'while :; do sleep 20; echo keepalive; done'
> 
> As the sole purpose of the dbclient command in this case is to set up
> a tunnel, is there an easier way to do this than all the extra input?
> 
> In other words, is there a way to enable keepalive messages without
> having to pipe something in, perhaps like OpenSSH's ClientAlive
> options?

There's nothing there currently, though I might add
something like that in a future version.

Cheers,
Matt


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